Soho Crime
November 2018
On Sale: November 6, 2018
384 pages ISBN: 1616957484 EAN: 9781616957483 Kindle: B079R47X8W Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Reluctant P.I. to the perfidious, Junior Bender, may be L.A.βs smoothest operator but when he breaks one of the cardinal rules of burglary (donβt take scores that youβre being paid way too much for) he finds himself once again on the wrong side of, well, the wrong side.
Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender has a rule about never taking a job that pays too well: in the criminal underworld, if youβre offered more money than a job is worth, someone is going to end up dead. But heβs bending his rule this one time because he and his girlfriend, Ronnie, are in desperate need of cash to hire a kidnapper to snatch Ronnieβs two-year-old son back from her ex. The whole thing is pretty complicated and has Junior on edge.
The parameters of the job do nothing to calm his nerves. A nameless woman in an orange wig has offered Junior fifty grandβtwenty-five up frontβto break into the abandoned house of a recently deceased 97-year-old recluse, Daisy Horton, and steal a doll from her collection. Junior knows no doll is worth 50K, so he figures there must be something hidden inside the doll that can get him in a heap of trouble. It doesnβt take long for Junior to realize heβs not the only one looking for the doll. When an old friend ends up murdered, Junior decides he will stop at nothing to figure out who the woman in the orange wig is, and why she wants the doll badly enough to leave a trail of bodies in her wake.
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