Michael Shepard, a detective with his own set of problems, is hired one
morning by a fashionable young woman at her Hollywood apartment. Soon
he's embroiled in a murder investigation that may shed light on a nearly
forgotten tragedy. A divorced father wondering how to set his son on a
better course in life, the detective gets into deepening trouble as he
negotiates a vivid panorama of the town's modern-day beautiful and
damned. Author Aram Saroyan harnesses the hardboiled styles of Chandler,
Hammett, and Ross MacDonald into a contemporary tale of information age
intrigue. The text is supplemented with cell phone photos taken by
Saroyan in the same environs in which the story unfolds.