Drop Dead: A Nick Sterling & Zoey Lassiter Mystery: 1 (A Sterling & Lassiter Mystery)

Its the 1940s--wartime in San Francisco. Young beautiful ambitious radio actress Billie Desmond is living the high life until an unplanned pregnancy casts a dark shadow on her romance with local radio personality and darling of San Francisco Café Society Payton Powell.When her lover refuses Billies demand they marry she threatens to expose a secret that could land him in Federal prison for the rest of his life. Powell is not about to let that happen.When Billie vanishes during a live radio broadcast the SFPD mount a full investigation but fail to find any trace of the actress. The disappearance of Billie Desmond dead-ends in a cold case file; forgotten by law enforcement until Sheriffs Inspector Maxwell Sterling and his feisty wife Zoey Lassiter begin to pick up clues.Drop Dead is the first in a series of murder mysteries featuring these two sleuths.