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1983 Shamus Award for Best PI Novel (nominee)
Charles Westover, a disbarred lawyer, alleges that his runaway teenage daughter has beenmurdered and he files an insurance claim. And then he disappears, leaving claims investigator, Dave Brandstetter to sort through the pieces of the puzzle. Young women have been murdered by the crazed guru of a bizarre sex cult - is this what happened to Serenity Westover?
Brandstetter's investigation, set against vivid Californian backgrounds of expensive seaside suburbs and snowy mountain camps, desert towbs and wilderness canyons, takes him on a quest of mounting tensions and ultimate horror. Never has he needed his renowned shrewdness and compasson more. And never has he faced so close a bursh with a grisly death.
Genre: Mystery
Brandstetter's investigation, set against vivid Californian backgrounds of expensive seaside suburbs and snowy mountain camps, desert towbs and wilderness canyons, takes him on a quest of mounting tensions and ultimate horror. Never has he needed his renowned shrewdness and compasson more. And never has he faced so close a bursh with a grisly death.
Genre: Mystery
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