Evan Hobbs, a beloved Disney actor, is the victim of what appears to be a deep fake, a video of him in a compromising position with a young girl, After a Hollywood party, he’s found dead in a the collapse of a cliff. With the exposure of the video, it could be suicide. Detective Maggie Nolan is assigned the case. A second death, the murder of the brother-in-law of Hobbes’ agent, tips the scales in favor of murder.
This is the third book in the Detective Margaret Nolan series. Many of the characters are regulars in the series, but there is a host of new characters. Sometimes it almost seems like too many. If you haven’t read the first two books it may be hard to keep them straight. The characters, even the minor ones, are well developed. One of the things I like about this book is the interleaving of personal information about the investigators lives with the murder investigation.
This is a well plotted police procedural with lots of twist and turns to keeping you guessing the identity of the murderer until the end. I also enjoyed the detailed descriptions of Los Angeles, particularly the rarefied air of Hollywood stars and their associates. If you enjoy police police procedurals, this is a good one.
I received this book from St. Martins’s Press for this review.
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