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n nMarshall Karp is up there with Carl Hiassen, Donald Westlake and Janet Evanovich- smart, fact-based, clever, and really, really funny.-Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author, Power Play n nKarps Tinseltown kiss-off reads like a solid Hollywood buddy-cop thriller. -Entertainment Weekly n nIts a bloodthirsty town, Hollywood is. No matter how popular you are, theres always someone who would be happier if you were dead. Marshall Karp, coauthor with James Patterson of the #1 bestselling NYPD Red series, sets this Lomax and Biggs thriller right smack in the middle of Hollywoods most deadly game: moviemaking. n nBarry Gerber, one of the most hated, and powerful producers in Hollywood, is a no-show for a red carpet movie premiere. The next morning he turns up dead. Exsanguinated. Drained of blood. No one at the Los Angeles Police Department has ever seen a murder like it. n nEveryone hated the victim. LAPD Detective Terry Biggs jokes that the murder could be an elaborate public service effort to make Hollywood a better place. But Biggs and his partner Detective Mike Lomax soon find all jokes are off when, two days later, the prime suspect, another despised show-business bad boy, is found murdered in the same sadistic manner. n nWith two A-list Hollywood giants dead, the list of suspects in the mystery becomes as long as the credits in a summer blockbuster. Is it a story of revenge elevated to deadly new heights, a serial killer, or something even more diabolical? Their investigation leads them to a motive far more primal than they imagined. n nComplicating matters, after a recent high-profile case, Lomax and Biggs were in talks with Gerber to turn their story into a major Hollywood film. His death could mean the end of their dreams of fame and fortune in the movies. n nLet master storyteller Marshall Karp (a Hollywood veteran himself) take you on a ride-along in a fast-paced, razor-sharp, humor-filled adventure youll find impossible to put down. Once your adrenaline is pumping and your appetite whetted, dont hesitate to move onto the rest of the fast-paced Lomax and Biggs mystery series: The Rabbit Factory; Flipping Out; Cut, Paste, Kill; and Terminal.n
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