Thugs

by J. Richard Singleton

A teenage girl is found dead on the PCH, and a lapel pin from the elite Monroe Academy leads two LAPD Detectives, the jaded Deanne Carter and the naive former Monroe student Mary Wilkes to Seacrest, California, America's wealthiest town with secrets as bizarre as the people are wealthy and beautiful.Because within the halls of the elite prep school Monroe Academy, entangling it like an octopus, is a cult-like organization of young men known as the Group, led by the beautiful sociopathic heiress Marie Valette.Meanwhile, former thug trying to go straight Sullivan Stokes, is brought into a murderous conspiracy by the Group. The dead girl was the product of her anarchistic clique's "prank," and now they need someone to dispose of the body, Valette tells him, and his past gives him the special insight needed for this crime. The young men at her service "don't even like getting their Dickies dirty" and can't handle their "90 pound problem."With Carter and Wilkes believing he's the killer, Stokes must save his girlfriend, unravel the bizarre schoolwide conspiracy and somehow stay alive...(Author's The formatting conversion is not perfect here on Kindle. If any producers out there are interested in optioning or buying it, you can reach me thru my Amazon author's page. Feel free to pass it along, especially to the connected in this town.)

276 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 11, 2011

About the author

Novelist, essayist, screenwriter, philosopher, riverboat gambler, typer of biographies, J. Richard Singleton has established himself as one of the great thinkers of his time. (Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.) He was a dual major in college, earning degrees in both political science and English, where he also wrote for his college newspaper. In high school, he wrote a little screenplay, "Thugs," which was recently declared a finalist in both the WriteMovies.com screenwriting contest and the American Accolades screenwriting contest. When he isn't writing screenplays, novels and essays, he enjoys drinking whiskey and writing to celebrities to tell them what they're doing wrong in their careers.