Detective Shane Scully responds to a call in the Hollywood hills at a once immaculate mansion,the scene of an infamous murder twenty-five years prior.He discovers the remnants of a lavish pool party.The revelers have fled,leaving three dead bodies in their wake,all shot with the same gun.One is an acclaimed film producer.The other two,a pair of gorgeous women.With his new partner,Summer “Hitch” Hitchens,Scully begins to investigate what looks to be an open and shut case: The women were hired prostitutes, and there’s security video of an angry husband firing all three.A simple caes of brutal revenge.But nothing is ever simple as it seems:There’s a single spent bullet casing that doesn’t match the rest.
From that single bullet emerges astroy of love,murder,suicide,and one of the biggest financial frauds in L.A.history.Someone has gone to great lengths to cover up a decades old crime,and as Scully and Hitch get closer to the answer,they find themselves in a killers crosshairs.
TITLE: THE PROSTITUTE’S BALL
AUTHOR: STEPHEN J. CANNELL
