THE PRINCE OF PALOS VERDES

Murder in one of the richest little towns in the country.

E.L. Nash, retired LAPD homicide detective and national bestselling novelist lives in Palos Verdes. When the wife of the city's richest citizen - who also happens to be Nash's friend - is murdered, Nash steps in to help.

With the media circus and the state of Nash's own marriage, things start to spiral out of control.

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TRICK OF THE LIGHT

This novel is different from other Stephen Smoke novels. "I wrote it about an experience I had in the early 70s. I originally wrote a musical, 'White Light Train,' about the experience but it didn't communicate well to a large audience."

By the time he wrote this book in 1989 Mr. Smoke had already written lots of mysteries, psychological thrillers and published Mystery Magazine. In Trick of the Light he blended what was then called "new age" with the "hardboiled mystery" genre. He injected life's great questions -- Who are we? Where do we come from? Is there a God? -- into the mystery genre setting and created a story in which the client wants the detective to help her find God.

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PACIFIC BLUES

LAPD chief of detectives Derek Cheney has hung up his badge after nearly thirty yeras of learning how not to feel. But when his ex-partner is brutally murdered, cheney comes out of retirement to nail one last killer.

All too quickly another victim turns up. And then another, each bearing the same mysterious blue ribbon as found on his ex-partner's body. Yet each victim was apparently murdered by a different killer in a different way.

Cheney's frustrating search leads him down a twisted path paved with unanswered questions. And what he discovers about the killer - and the victims - will chock the cynical city and haunt Cheney forever.

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PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY

Retired, no longer LAPD's chief of detectives, Derek Chney plans ot lavish his time on his 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 LA studio where a brillaint madman splices his obsession into a chilling vision of passion, betrayal, and terror.

And final cut is death.

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BLACK BUTTERFLY

Twelve years ago Victor Larkin, an LA artist, was arrested for the murders of six women. Larkin's "signature" was a colorful and meticulously detailed rendering of a Painted Lady butterfly done on each victim's back.

Two days after his arrest Larkin hung himself in his cell.

Now, twelve years later, LAPD detective E.L. Nash is looking for a serial killer who paints butterflies on his victims' backs. Painted Lady butterflies.

Just like before...

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TEARS OF ANGELS

One of conservative radio host Kyle Talbot's listeners is taking his taking the host's message way too seriously. Drug dealers, sexual predators and corrupt politicians who have evaded justice are being systematically and brutally murdered.

FBI agent and serial killer expert Matt Baldwin is assigned to the case. But as he get more deeply involved he realizes that although the killer may be mad, he is also quite brilliant.

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