This American murder mystery in the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, focuses on the chilling story of private eye Jim Sader's attempt to pursue his lonely trail down California's mean streets. She has also written "Sleep With Slander".

It started out as just another job for Long Beach private eye Jim Sader. Some old guy had spun him a story about his daughter's illegitimate child, who had been secretly adopted five years ago. Now an anonymous letter suggested that the boy was being brutally mistreaed. Sader thought he knew all about the self-deception and cruelty of the human heart, but nothing had prepared him for the sight of a starved and terrified five-year-old with whip-marks on his back.