MacGuffin

by Roy C. Booth, Roy C Booth

Hollywood, California, August 2005.The double murder of a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon and his fiancee leaves LAPD homicide detectives baffled. Assigned to assist in the investigation, FBI Special Agent Haley Murch has a theory— were the slayings a copycat of the 1969 Manson murders or were they the work of somebody else altogether, someone elusive? For the past six years, she had researched the exploits of a notorious serial killer the media had come to call “The Hollywood Walk of Fame Killer” - a killer whose calling card matched those left behind at the crime scene.To solve this mystery, it will take the LAPD’s lead homicide detective’s obsessive knowledge of Hollywood film history, his team’s elite investigative skills, and Agent Murch’s masterful profiling ability to thwart this serial killer.

283 pages, Paperback

Published October 18, 2016

Reviews

[Cyrene Olson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book starts out pretty fast, and also with almost too much going on to the point of wondering how all this will come together and play out. But the authors do a great job bringing all the frayed ends of this noir crime story together. At times I even laughed out loud. This is a very twisted thriller that most crime readers will really enjoy. This is definitely a plot driven storyline and I would have liked to see these characters flushed out a bit more, as they felt a bit off in their reactions.

The pacing is great, and it kept me entertained, and those that know me and my reading preferences know that if a suspense novel keeps me turning pages, it’s worth a look.