Desert Deadline

<p>Dante O'Donnell and Jazz Friendly make an unlikely pair of crime solvers thrust together by iffy circumstances in the so-called paradise of sunny Palm Springs. He's white and gay a concierge at a vacation-rental outfit; she's Black and straight a private eye on the rebound from a failed marriage.</p><p><br></p><p>Maude Movay a reclusive author of romance novels is facing a tight deadline for a multimillion-dollar deal. So she checks in at one of Dante's rentals intending to write a blockbuster then checks out on a gurney feet first. It was murder all right and Jazz steps in to help prove who's guilty. Soon though a second tragedy strikes this one much too close to home.</p><p><br></p><p>For both Dante and Jazz the race is on to name a killer save a fortune-and rescue an innocent child.</p>