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Overview
"Samuel Shelton likes to relax with an ice-cold vodka and a California sunset, but he has a lot on his mind: his wife is dead and his washed up Hollywood starlet of a girlfriend is ignoring him. When Shelton is discovered in a shallow grave, Officer Hicks is on the case." Amid the media frenzy, Hicks stays under the radar, doing things by the book, but everything comes to a shocking halt when a trail of clues leads straight to putting Hicks at the scene of the crime. Plowing forward, now with his own reputation on the line, Hicks hurdles stalling lawyers, police protocol, and a burnt out trailer home connected to Shelton's case. Fast-paced and deadly, Dead Rite is one man's dark trip through the riches of sunny Hollywood as he struggles to keep it together.Synopsis
With retirement looming on the horizon, Detective Hicks is going through the motions of investigating yet another murder case. But hell breaks loose and procedure breaks down when Hicks realizes the killer is impersonating him. In the unreal world of celebrity, power brokers, and decadence, the good detective spends the home stretch of his career tracking a twisted murderer and clearing his name. Like Michael Tolkin’s The Player, Dead Rite both embraces and satirizes the pulp tradition, reviving it for a younger audience while turning an unsparing noir eye toward an older generation of classic works.
Book Details
Published
December 1, 2004
Publisher
Contemporary Press NY
Pages
186
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780974461472