But the wealthy preacher’s wife has some secrets of her own that come to light when one of Polly’s former clients, Cinda Mae Bradbury, divulges the past occupation of the missing woman. Did Holly Kow run away? Has she been kidnapped? Or, has something worse happened in Hollywood Hills?
With a killer on the loose, Polly is nearly murdered in a drive-by shooting, and the tarot card reader in Polly’s building mysteriously disappears after making a dire prediction for Polly’s ex-husband, Johnny’s future.
Can Polly, her assistant Bunny, and Johnny find Holly Kow before it’s too late? Their time is up, and their very survival depends on solving THE CASE OF THE LOST TROPHY WIFE…
EXCERPT
A minute or two after
I’d informed Bunny of my decision to take the Kow case, I remembered the
invoice I forgot to give him. I headed out to his desk with a copy of a
statement from the L.A. Department of Power and Water.
“One more bill
to pay,” I said. “The best reason of all to work with a shyster like Bugsy.”
No sooner had
the words left my mouth when all hell broke loose.
“Holy sh—! Get
down, Polly,” Bunny yelled, tackling me and dragging me behind his desk as a
flurry of gunshots rang out.
“What the—” I’d
barely hit the floor when our building exploded in a fusillade of flying
bullets and shattering glass and metal. The cannonade rivaled the Fourth of
July at Dodger Stadium. I hoped our building’s earthquake fortifications were
up to code, because there was a whole lot of shakin’ going on and not of the
Jerry Lee Lewis variety. I listened for screams, wondering if anyone downstairs
had been hit, but the only sounds reaching my ears were of the non-human
variety.
