Bøger af Jess Waid

Young, eager LAPD cop Mike Montego has to deal with a series of art thefts, crooked cops, a passionate, complicated girlfriend, kinky sex, and bloody mayhem. After all, it's Hollywood in the early '60s.

A psycho haunts the hills of Hollywood....It's 1961. The Berlin Wall goes up, the Bay of Pigs invasion flops, punks cruise the Boulevard with their tops down blasting Chubby Checker's "Pony Time," and women are being savagely butchered on LAPD cop Mike Montego's beat. Something's got to give, and it won't be Montego.

Old mobsters never die. . . . It's Hollywood in the early '60s. Men are brash, women are brassy, and cars are big. Plainclothes cop Mike Montego has a problem, and his name is Neall Haley, who happens to be Montego's new partner. Something's very wrong, and Montego needs to find out what, fast, before someone gets hurt--him!

LAPD detective Mike Montego can't seem to escape trouble. Fleeing the mean streets of Los Angeles for the balmy beaches of Hawaii to clear his mind after a hasty Vegas wedding, he soon finds himself saying aloha to Waikiki as he rolls up his investigative sleeves and tackles the task of unraveling the murder of a local surfer. Montego becomes enmeshed in a seedy, dangerous world of narcotics smuggling and human trafficking, far from the island hold of tiki torches and fruity cocktails most tourists enjoy. With both his marriage (courtesy of a gorgeous Eurasian next door neighbor) and his life in jeopardy, Montego cracks the case and makes a surprising discovery in the process.

Mike Montego, a newly appointed homicide detective assigned to Hollywood Division responds to a crime scene where the wife, Brenda Mackay, has fatally shot her husband, Coyle. She claims she was afraid her husband would beat their oldest son, Kirk, to death. The mother of four, one an infant girl, Brenda claims Coyle was drunk and she had to protect her children. Montego's senior partner tells him it's "open and shut" and to quickly write it up and then file the case with the District Attorney. Montego, however, has a different take on the facts and continues to investigate, including interviewing the oldest child. Montego also calls in his lifelong mentor, Eagon Quinn, and ex-homicide detective and now a successful defense attorney, to review the case and hopefully to defend Brenda pro bono. Quinn brings in Doctor Reichstadt, a psychiatrist to evaluate Brenda and her oldest son. Meanwhile, the District Attorney files Murder One charges against Brenda. Montego's ex-partner in patrol, Larry Titus, now a deputy district attorney, is assigned the case, his first Murder case. Although Titus has certain misgivings about trying Brenda where the death penalty is on the table, he has no choice. He puts on the best prosecution possible. Quinn pushes for and gets a speedy trial. Montego testifies, as does the psychiatrist, and Brenda's oldest boy. She also testifies. The matter goes to the jury. What subsequently occurs in the jury room is unexpected and the consequences deeply emotional.

L.A. in the early 'Sixties, plus cool jazz, hot women, relentless bad guys pursuing from Hollywood to Las Vegas and one determined cop equals a hell of an entertaining read!" Another Mike Montego novel written in first person, present tense.