When a routine missing persons case goes sideways, Malone must once again descend into the seedy underbelly of the City of Angels in his quest to find two missing Brentwood socialites and to find the answers to some very pressing questions. More
When a routine missing persons case goes sideways, Malone must once again descend into the seedy underbelly of the City of Angels in his quest to find two missing Brentwood socialites and to find the answers to some very pressing questions.
When two young Kardashian-like sisters, Brentwood debutantes, go missing, their father calls in Malone to find them. The client, the ultra-wealthy owner of Los Angeles’ largest luxury car dealership and a candidate for the L. A. city council with a trophy wife half his age, can’t imagine where his daughters have gone. Malone embarks on what he expects to be a routine missing persons gig, a simple bread and butter case for a gumshoe, but things get complicated. After Malone interviews one of the missing girl’s close friends, she inexplicably commits suicide. Next, there’s a mysterious murder. He uncovers hints of blackmail. Once again, Malone must descend into the seedy underbelly of the City of Angeles in his quest to find the missing young women and get the answers to some very pressing questions.
Ben Malone, is the street-wise protagonist of the "Malone Mystery Novels" series. In the first novel, he is a maverick L.A.P.D. detective temporarily detailed to the Cold Case Homicide unit while undergoing department-mandated psychiatric evaluation after a spate of fatal on-duty shootings. At the end of the book, he resigns from the L.A.P.D. due to his disenchantment with the rule-bound and politically correct environment he believed the L.A.P.D. had become. He returns in Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair, as a P.I. in LA, having taken over the agency of a late friend and mentor. He continues in that capacity throughout the remainder of the series. Malone is known for his own personal and often unorthodox code of ethics and his habit of skirting the law and accepted professional procedure when he feels it is necessary to move a case forward. Malone is a loner for the most part who works with a small circle of capable associates, including friends at the L.A.P.D. and occasionally, some LA organized crime figures who have befriended him. The third book in the series is scheduled for publication in Nov. 2017.