City of Fire

When a pregnant woman is found murdered in her bed by her hotshot businessman husband, the elite Robbery-Homicide division of the L.A.P.D. responds in full force. Best-case scenario for lead Detective Lena Gamble: prove Nikki Brant's husband killed her, and case closed - before the ravenous Hollywood media can get their tabloid into gear. But the murder is only the first in a series of brutal crimes against beautiful women thought to be perpetrated by a sociopath dubbed Romeo. The case promises to either elevate Lena to the upper echelons of a publicity-hungry department in need of heroes - or bring about a very public and painful fall from grace. Lena has been in the public eye before: on the night her rock-star brother was gunned down - a grisly and still unsolved murder, from which she's never recovered. She knows the score when the press and the L.A.P.D. collide. As the investigation plays out and a forest fire blankets the city with smoke, a cloud of conspiracy descends on Lena's investigation, and she knows she'll have to grind this one out...because Nikki Brant's death just breathed new life into more than one closed case...because the web of conspiracy is spun more intricately than she can possibly imagine.
..and because Lena knows there's only one rock solid rule to murder in L.A.: the deeper the horror, the bigger the spectacle.