Blood and Mascara

<p><em>Iris is watching Bronze.</em></p><p><em>Bronze is following Carolyn.</em></p><p><em>Carolyn is sleeping with Billy.</em></p><p><em>Now Billy is dead and a killer is coming for them all.</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>Washington DC 1997:</strong></p><p>A city stumbling toward recovery after a decade of violence drugs AIDS and exodus. Bronze Goldberg-a soft-boiled private detective in a hard-boiled world-scrapes out a living stalking the steps of cheating spouses while bearing the trauma of the past like an open wound. But his latest assignment surveilling the indiscretions of a stunning femme fatale has entangled him in the murder of an up-and-coming congressman and made him the target of an unstoppable assassin. Meanwhile the spiraling chaos of Bronze's dangerous adventures has attracted the obsessive attention of his landlord Iris Margaryan a brilliant romance novelist who may hold the missing piece in the puzzle of Bronze's fatal past. Can Bronze survive long enough to reach the ultimate truth?</p><p> </p><p>A gripping noir mystery-both intensely provocative and darkly thrilling-<em>Blood and Mascara</em> descends into the depths of the human soul before exploding in an ending too shocking to ever forget.</p>