Between Rock and Hard Places

<p>Jim Rooney has just finished his memoir about his days as a drummer for the Johnny Sands Band a hugely popular 1970s American rock group when he dies in a suspicious car crash. His widow suspects he was murdered in part because all traces of the manuscript have disappeared and hires private investigator Mike McMahon who moonlights as a junior college instructor teaching a class in the history of rock 'n' roll to look into it. McMahon is torn between his commitment to the case and his commitment to his on-again off-again girlfriend Becka Goldberg professor of Anglo-Saxon literature at San Francisco State. Ultimately McMahon uncovers the truth behind the band's untimely end a result of the death of its front man in a plane crash the night of what turned out to be their final concert all of which would have been part of Rooney's memoir.</p>