It Started With a Murder

<p><span style=color: rgba(29 28 29 1); background-color: rgba(248 248 248 1)>When a teenage girl is murdered on The Saber-Ocean View's most dangerous stretch of street-Detective Michael Tough is pulled into a hunt for a killer who is always one step ahead. But nothing prepares him for Becky Conway a heroin-addicted prostitute whose heartbreaking involvement in the case will change both of their lives forever.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 28 29 1); background-color: rgba(248 248 248 1)>As more young women vanish and bodies begin to appear Michael uncovers a disturbing pattern-one that suggests there may be not one but </span><em style=color: rgba(29 28 29 1); background-color: rgba(248 248 248 1)>two</em><span style=color: rgba(29 28 29 1); background-color: rgba(248 248 248 1)> predators stalking the city. Each new clue drags him deeper into a web of violence exploitation corruption and betrayal.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 28 29 1); background-color: rgba(248 248 248 1)>For Becky survival means facing the brutal world she's been trapped in since she was a girl. For Michael solving the case means risking everything-including his career and his sense of justice-to protect the vulnerable woman who becomes central to the investigation...and to his heart.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(29 28 29 1); background-color: rgba(248 248 248 1)>Gritty emotional and intensely suspenseful <em>It Started With a Murder</em> is a gripping crime thriller about broken lives second chances and the unexpected paths that lead us home.</strong></p>