A Pocketful of Karma — Taffy Cannon

WHAT'S HAPPENED TO HOLLYWOOD PLAYGIRL DEBRA LAROCHE?

No one has heard from her in weeks. Her former boss, L.A. lawyer Nan Robinson, is certain that Debra would not willingly abandon her divorce proceedings or her Hollywood muscle boys for such a long time without letting someone know.

The police hardly care, so troubled Nan undertakes the thankless task of sifting through the flotsam of Debra's headlong existence for clues to her whereabouts. But Debra's Hollywood playmates are cagey. Her abusive husband is little help. And her concerned colleagues at Malibu's elegant Past Lives Institute are politically nonplussed.

Nan feels she's reaching a dead end, and perhaps she will--for a murderer decides that another "disappearance" may soon be necessary: Nan's....