Status Updates From Fatal Secrets

We're starting to get into the entertainment industry's and West Coast rich's partying part, as the blurbs promise.

"'Try a little screwing instead. Drinking in the morning will take you right out of the big game.'
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That was another piece of wisdom from Willy. He always called scotch a thinking man's drink. It forced you to think about things that were better left buried."

The pace is the same but was more appreciated for the first 50 pages when I started. I was starting to feel a little slump on it today. I think I'm just going to picture the Mission Impossible franchise Ving Rhames for our private investigator. Another L.A.-set novel for me.