Ashes of Yesterday
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What would make you pull the trigger?
When Reed Kimball is found with a bullet between the eyes, the police are faced with so many suspects, they don't know where to begin. A gambler, a speculator, and a love 'em and leave 'em kinda guy, Kimball is a middle-aged, toupee-wearing louse who magnetically attracts women by his sheer lack of interest.
On the heels of their triumphant resolution, dubbed the Canary Case, private investigators Florian Flix and Phalen Archer find themselves boarding a train for Hollywood. Movie mogul, Alfred Steppson, has made them and offer they can't refuse. He wants to make a move to immortalize them in film.
Once they arrive in Hollywood, glitz and glamour threaten to turn their heads. A secret is being kept from the stars and major players in Tinseltown. In the land of make believe, nothing is as it seems. A dream factory and a magnificent estate warp into a nightmare. Booze and drugs and a legion intent on bringing down Steppson's empire clash in a twisted web of lies and deception.
Who shot Reed Kimball? And why?
The Cupid/Archer Mystery Series:
1. Beastly House
2. Cupid's Archer (A Cupid/Archer Mystery)
3. The Dust of Death (A Cupid/Archer Mystery)
4. Ashes of Yesterday (A Cupid/Archer Mystery)
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