Kyd For Hire — Timothy Harris

"CHARLOTTE KNOWS. IT WAS UNSPEAKABLE.."

That's what the suicide note said. Now Charlotte, heiress to the Elevel fortune, has vanished without a trace, terrified by the same intolerable family secret that had driven her mother to take her own life.

Thomas Kyd is a man of high principles and low assets, a private detective working on the seamy side of Los Angeles, where the exotic life-forms of the city slip by like colorful fish in a polluted stream. He's down on his luck, until sad-eyed multimillionaire Joe Elevel begs him to find his only daughter, Charlotte.

But Kyd isn't the only one interested in Charlotte. There's a chilling figure from the Elevel past stalking her with the cool precision of a professional killer. And as Kyd combs the city, minute by desperate minute, he is drawn into a bizarre and shocking human tragedy, where stunning intrigue and insatiable greed rush toward a steel-spring conclusion.