Skin Deep, Blood Red — Robert Skinner

Even At Ten Grand, The Price Of The Soul Is Never An Easy Sale...
Chance Tartaglia, a cop with a nasty reputation for embezzling, pimping, and drug-dealing has been found shot to death. To nightclub owner Wesley Farrell--who knows all about secrets--he has another low-life who didn't pay his tab. Until Farrell is hired to find the killer, and forced to hitch a ride with his own private demons. Now, the lie Farrell's been living for so long is about to blow up in his face. Because there's more to Tartaglia's death than a bullet to the chest...

Ask Holly, the prostitute with the heart of lead, and the last one to see the victim alive. Ask Sandra, Tartaglia's daughter, who couldn't be as innocent as she looks. Ask Farrell himself, who is drawn into a world of corruption, greed, twisted passion, and cool-blooded murder. A world where every notion about loyalty and courage will be challenged--and defined by shades of night-black and crimson-red.