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Drop Dead: A Nick Sterling & Zoey Lassiter Mystery
It's the 1940s--wartime in San Francisco. Young, beautiful, ambitious radio actress Billie Desmond is living the high life until an unplanned pregnancy casts a dark shadow on her romance with local radio personality and darling of San Francisco Café Society, Payton Powell.
When her lover refuses Billie's demand they marry, she threatens to expose a secret that could land him in Federal prison for the rest of his life. Powell is not about to let that happen.
When Billie vanishes during a live radio broadcast, the SFPD mount a full investigation but fail to find any trace of the actress. The disappearance of Billie Desmond dead-ends in a cold case file; forgotten by law enforcement until Sheriff's Inspector Maxwell Sterling and his feisty wife Zoey Lassiter begin to pick up clues.
Drop Dead is the first in a series of murder mysteries featuring these two sleuths.
Book Details
- Publisher: Larkspurian Press
- Publish Date: Nov 26th, 2018
- Pages: 308
- Language: English
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- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.25in - 0.65in - 0.71lb
- EAN: 9781732416505
- Categories: • Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled• Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural• Mystery & Detective - Cozy - General
Praise for this book
DROP DEAD takes readers on a journey to post-war San Francisco where a young Marin County Sheriff's deputy and his feisty radio scriptwriter wife team up to thwart commies hidden in plain sight. Noir settings, snappy dialogue and hold-your-breath suspense make Behm's first novel a page-turner that will keep readers up at night and begging for more from this talented plot weaver." --Lynn Arias Bornstein, author of Laura English
"Author Joe Behm presents us with a riveting post-World War II suspense-FBI-single-sleuth murder-mystery thriller. Joe's historical action and adventure fiction comes to life amid the memories of those who lived and survived the fight against the fledgling California Communist Party. His clarity and precision to remain close to the original events in fact and spirit, destines him to become an outstanding innovative murder mystery theme writer well into the 21st century." --Don DeNevi, author of Shep in the Victorio War
"Look no further for a voice of real evil than DROP DEAD, Joe Behm's new novel, wrapping 1940's media, the emergence of the Communist Party, sex and murder. In this historical action thriller, facts and fiction are intricately woven to hold the reader tightly in their grasp as DROP DEAD races to a climactic conclusion." --Penny Dufficy
"The lead characters of DROP DEAD have complex personalities that encourage you to want to know more about them, and their journey to finding the perpetrator of the crimes takes some wonderful and unexpected twists and turns. It's reminiscent of the classic mystery novel." --Helen Feber
"The opening chapter of DROP DEAD got me hooked and I couldn't stop reading. I like the way author Joe Behm uses dialog of the '40s and '50s to bring the story to life. Each scene jumps off the page proving Behm has a great way with words." --Abby Atkinson