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A killing in the valley

In an old Californian house, a young man commits a thoroughly modern crime

Maria Estrada, a hard-partying girl with family ties to some of the toughest gangsters in California, had no idea an old mansion could be so beautiful. The boy who broke into it with her had a feeling she might be impressed. But by the time the night is over, Maria has been brutally killed, and the boy is nowhere to be found.

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It's up to PI Kate Blanchard and Luke Garrison, a criminal lawyer, to decipher what happened in the grand old mansion. To bring Maria's killer to justice, they must locate the elusive connection between the poverty where she was raised and the affluence of where she died.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 481 pages

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