Porno Valley

<p><strong>FINALIST: Best First PI Novel Shamus Awards</strong><strong style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)><em></em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>It's the year 2000 and 78-year-old Mickey O'Rourke has been a Los Angeles PI for a very long time. He'd thought he'd seen it all until the disappearance of porn star Jeffrey Strokes sends him from the sex-filled studios of the San Fernando Valley to the desperate streets of Compton where Mickey's final case becomes his biggest test.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Flash back to 1998 and struggling hair salon employee Jemeka Johnson suspecting boyfriend Ray-Ray of infidelity follows him one night from their East Compton home to what turns out to be a drug deal gone sour where a twist of fate finds Jemeka tossed onto a dark and dangerous path -- one that offers huge reward for someone bold enough to seize it.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Meanwhile in 1999 tired of robbing small-town diners and shooting bad dope in filthy motel rooms newlyweds Richie and Alabama return to LA in search of the perfect score.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Paths cross and past meets present as bad decisions hurtle toward worse consequences -- and no one will ever be the same.</span></p>