Pacific Coast Highway

by Stephen Smoke

Overview

FINAL CUT Retired, no longer chief of detectives, Derek Cheney plans to lavish his time on his exquisite wife, Elizabeth. But then a wealthy neighbor asks Cheney to investigate a hit-and-run death that was no accident. A seductive reporter refuses to take no for an answer. A young woman is found viciously murdered. Then another...and another. Soon Cheney's marriage is slipping away as he follows the cold ten-year-old trail of a serial killer from Las Vegas to the L.A. studio where a brilliant madman splices his obsessions into a chilling vision of passion, betrayal, and terror-and the final cut is death.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781517706326
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	11/12/2015
Series:	Pacific , #2
Pages:	410
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

Stephen Smoke is the author of 20 novels, including Black Butterfly, Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Blues, Trick of the Light, The Prince of Palos Verdes, and Cathedral of the Senses under his own and other names. He has also written ten non-fiction books.

Stephen has written and directed feature films, including "Street Crimes" (starring Dennis Farina) and "Final Impact," and has written screenplays for others, including "Magic Kid." All of Stephen's HarperCollins novels-and most of the rest of his novels-have been optioned for film, including Trick of the Light (published by Beyond Words-publisher of The Secret), which was optioned by Hemdale (winner of two Academy Awards for Best Picture: "Platoon" and "The Last Emperor of China."

With the publication of Cathedral of the Senses, Trick of the Light, and I, Walt Whitman in all three formats (softcover, eBook, and enhanced multimedia format for the iPad), Stephen has the unique distinction of being a novelist with three multimedia eBooks, each containing its own embedded soundtrack.

Stephen founded and published Mystery Magazine, and published the first online mystery magazine (Hamilton Caine's Mystery Digest).

He is also a published songwriter. He is a member of ASCAP and regularly collects royalties for music he has written. He occasionally plays at local coffeehouses and other venues.

Stephen is the author of the Bill of Responsibilities series and the Teen Bill of Responsibilities Course, which is taught in several Southern California schools.

Editorial Reviews

When billionaire Jamison Sanford suspects foul play in the highway hit-and-run death of his young wife Barbara, he turns to neighbor Derek Cheney, the recently retired LAPD chief of detectives. Because of his psychiatrist wife's heavy work schedule, Cheney finds himself with time on his hands and agrees to investigate the death, uncovering a string of serial murders perpetrated by a deranged director of slasher films. As Cheney works through his guilt and ambivalence over his wife's determination to undergo plastic surgery to enlarge her breasts, he is confronted with the seductive wiles of a beautiful reporter who scents a possible career-making story in the alleged hit-and-run. The author of Black Butterfly has created a fast-paced thriller with occasional insights into life, love and relationships--Smoke calls a muted TV the late 20th century's electronic fireplace and notes that the phrase ``difficult divorce'' is redundant. A film-writer and director himself, Smoke keeps the surprising turns of plot coming until the proverbial fat lady has sung. (Apr.)

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