A Death In Beverly Hills

LATEST VERSION - REVISED EDITION - SEPTEMBER 2014 When the pregnant wife and four-year-old stepdaughter of fading action-hero movie star Tom Travis disappear a massive search is launched. After the body of Travis’ wife is discovered only a few miles from where Tom had been riding his dune buggy on the day she vanished he's arrested and eventually placed on trial for capital murder. Of the little girl, Sarah, no trace is found. Only a few days away from an almost certain guilty verdict Travis’ lawyer hires suspended Ex-Deputy D.A. Steve Janson to try to find some overlooked clue that might keep Travis off death row. Janson accepts the assignment, not to help Travis but in the faint hope of finding Travis' missing stepdaughter still alive. Janson’s investigation leads him on a twisted path from Travis’ mistress to her drug-dealing brother to the writer and producer of Travis’ last movie and on across the landscape of Southern California until Janson eventually begins to wonder if Tom Travis might really be innocent after all. Visit David Grace's web site at WWW.DavidGraceAuthor.Com