Class A Felony

Vickie West demonstrates her range as an artist with two tales of murder.

In the first murderous saga, from a distance, you would think that Nyala Holloway was living the good life. She had three wonderful children and was living in a Cape Cod-inspired, five-bedroom Manhattan Beach home that was perched on a high vantage point with a city and mountain view. And after all these years, Nyala was married to the man of her dreams. To her, it couldn’t get any better than that.

And then the phone r...