A drop-dead gorgeous blonde socialite, with a penchant for seduction and with secrets to keep, pays a visit to Los Angeles private eye and former L.A.P.D. Detective Ben Malone.

As a maverick investigator, Malone is known for playing it fast and loose with the rules and for having a weakness for beautiful, sultry women. Murder and a ruthless mobster get thrown into the mix for good measure. What could possibly go wrong?

Eccentric hero Ben Malone, from Come What May, the first book in the Malone Mystery Novel series, is back in another action-packed, thrilling adventure, this time as a Los Angeles private eye. Amid his adjustment from LAPD detective to running his own private investigations agency, a strikingly beautiful blonde carrying a bundle of cash pays a visit to Malone's office with a somewhat unusual problem. The seductive blonde confides to Malone that she has witnessed a murder, but for delicate, personal reasons cannot go to the police to report what she saw. Empathetic with her situation, Malone agrees to take on the unique case even though it is not the kind of assignment a private detective sees every day. He must find and bring to the attention of the L.A.P.D., the identities of the suspected murderers so that justice can take its course without involving his client.

All in all, in the beginning, the case seems innocuous enough to Malone, an easy money assignment. That is until things start to unravel. There are three more murders connected to the first one before Malone's investigation even gets untracked. From there, like an out of control roller coaster, things go downhill fast and from bad to worse. Malone learns that the string of murders is mob-connected. The man believed behind them is a heavy hitter, the vicious mob boss of the Los Angeles' Ukrainian mafia and a man who will stop at nothing to eliminate Malone's client.

In the initial confrontation with the Ukrainian gangster, Malone is stunned to learn that his love interest, feisty psychiatrist Sara Bernstein is caught in the crosshairs, having been abducted by associates of the mob boss while attending a conference in San Francisco. She is held hostage by the mobster's minions and used as leverage to force Malone to betray the whereabouts of his client. He also discovers that things may not be as they first appeared with his drop-dead gorgeous client. She may be a femme fatale up to her pretty little ears in a little criminal behavior of her own.

Malone races against time, first to rescue Bernstein, and then to sort the innocent from the guilty in time to solve what rapidly evolves into a complicated web of deceit and criminal wrongdoing where it begins to look like fair is foul, and foul is fair.

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