Bloody Mary — Gabrielle Kraft

THE ARTWORK WAS HOT. THE JEWELS WERE MORE REAL THAN REAL. IT WAS L.A. LOOT TO DIE FOR...

Kids! Zalman doesn't have anything against them--as long as they don't interfere with his pursuit of the good life as one of L.A's most prosperous young attorneys. But when a 13-year-old and his girlfriend show up with a stolen Picasso medallion and want Zalman to return it, everything starts to go flooey. Happy Henke, the genuine imitation gem king, gets croaked at Le Croque. Then Happy's grieving widow shoots a burglar, and a redhead named Mary goes up to her elbows in blood. What we're talking here is a million-dollar jewelry racket, a lard heiress, and two sweet little kids leading one poor, high-strung lawyer on the kind of California trip that just might get you dead...