DEAD MAN TALKING -- look for this page-turning detective novel in bookstores this December.
In the rich Southern California beach town of Paraiso del mar, the number of dead bodies is beginning to rival the tanned bodies. That's how it looks for ex-surfer, war hero and now private eye, Matt Singer. First, there's the beautiful Abby McDonald -- a cheating wife who is raped and murdered while Matt and his partner Jamal Wade are watching on a stake-out. Next, the long-buried skeletal remains of a man's crushed skull and fractured bones are discovered on a new construction site.  So when Matt pays a visit to the most powerful man in town, Mayor Reid Lockhart, he doesn't expect to find him dying from a gunshot wound in a pool of blood. Then things really get deadly. Because Matt gets blindsided and doesn't regain consciousness until three days later in the hospital -- to the stunning news that the Mayor burned to death in a car crash. Now with the killer on his trail and being warned off by the rich and powerful in town, who know nothing of right or wrong, only desire .. Matt's only chance to make it out alive is to get a DEAD MAN TALKING.

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