Published: Sep. 15, 2009
Words: 133485 (approximate)
Language: English

Ebook short description

When the wife and three year old step-daughter of fading movie star, Tom Travis, disappeared, a massive, fruitless, search was launched. Three months later, the body of Travis's wife was discovered in a shallow grave only a few miles from where Tom had been riding his dune buggy on the day she vanished. Travis is on trial for capital murder. But did he do it?

Extended description

When the pregnant wife and three year old step-daughter of fading movie star, Tom Travis, disappeared, a massive, fruitless, search was launched. Three months later, the body of Travis’s wife was discovered in a shallow grave only a few miles from where Tom had been riding his dune buggy on the day she vanished. Of the three year old little girl, Sarah, no trace was found.

Arrested and placed on trial for capital murder, Tom Travis is now only a days away from an almost certain guilty verdict. Desperate to find some way out, his lawyer hires suspended Ex-Deputy D.A., Steve Janson, to review all the files and find some over-looked clue that might keep Travis off death row.

Janson, whose own wife had been murdered almost two years before, accepts the assignment, not to help Travis, but in the faint hope of finding Sarah still alive. Janson’s investigation leads him on a twisted path from Travis’s mistress to her drug-dealing brother to the writer and producer of his last movie a... (Read more) When the pregnant wife and three year old step-daughter of fading movie star, Tom Travis, disappeared, a massive, fruitless, search was launched. Three months later, the body of Travis’s wife was discovered in a shallow grave only a few miles from where Tom had been riding his dune buggy on the day she vanished. Of the three year old little girl, Sarah, no trace was found.

Arrested and placed on trial for capital murder, Tom Travis is now only a days away from an almost certain guilty verdict. Desperate to find some way out, his lawyer hires suspended Ex-Deputy D.A., Steve Janson, to review all the files and find some over-looked clue that might keep Travis off death row.

Janson, whose own wife had been murdered almost two years before, accepts the assignment, not to help Travis, but in the faint hope of finding Sarah still alive. Janson’s investigation leads him on a twisted path from Travis’s mistress to her drug-dealing brother to the writer and producer of his last movie and on across the landscape of Southern California until, eventually, Janson begins to wonder if Travis might really be innocent after all.
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Tags

hollywood, thriller, crime, murder, mystery, lost, police, trial, detective, lawyer, grace, beverly hills, cops, courtroom, david grace, a death in beverly hills, movie stars, action hero, kidnapped, saved, found, district attorney

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Review by: Tilly Lilley on March 26, 2011 :
A gripping read with interesting sub-stories and believable characters, very enjoyable despite some poor editing!
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Review by: Kevin mason on March 23, 2011 :
A very great read. Enough twists and turns to keep me up late. I mostly loved it til near the end - that seemed to be a bit too rushed. But over-all very good.

I agree with Phillip Bower's review, and I too will read more.
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Review by: Phillip Bower on March 02, 2011 :
Great story, very good read. The characters were quite real. They put the pieces together in the mystery and attempted to put the pieces of their life together as well.

I'll be reading more from this author.
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