Deadly Liaisons

TAKING THE LAW INTO HIS OWN HANDS AFTER HIS EX-WIFE IS MURDERED ISN'T ENOUGH...EQUALING THE SCORE IS.Luke Beckett is anything but your average Hollywood vice squad detective. A cop who refuses to play the game, he is like some Avenging Angel always quick to judge, and to punish with his rock-hard fists those who don't see his way. Forced to resign after a prostitute bust goes awry, he accepts a police lieutenant position in that God-forsaken place, Palm Springs, where there is hardly enough action to keep his blood circulating. That all changes when his ex-wife Marcia, since re-married to an aging American tycoon and one of Palm Springs' wealthiest, most influential residents, is found murdered at a swank party under suspicious circumstances with hardly a clue. Assigned to investigate her murder, this short-tempered, superbly trained former big city cop finds more than he expects-a secret romance with a lesbian lover and possible mob connections to her untimely death and assassination attempt on his own life-in this engaging, thought-provoking original hard-boiled mystery.ABOUT THE AUTHOR JEFF LENBURG is a prolific, award-winning author of 35 books, both fiction and non-fiction, among them two national bestsellers. His works include 18 acclaimed celebrity memoirs and biographies and more than a half-dozen entertainment histories and popular references that have been nominated for numerous awards, including the American Book Fest Best Book Awards for &quote;Best Biography,&quote; the American Library Association's (ALA) &quote;Best Non-Fiction Award,&quote; the Evangelical Christian Publisher Association's (ECPA) Gold Medallion Award for &quote;Best Autobiography/Biography,&quote; the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, and the annual International Book Awards for &quote;Best Biography,&quote; respectively. This is his second novel following his highly touted first cozy mystery, Scared to Death.