Rule of Capture

<p>Los Angeles 1928. Oil oranges and site of the C. C. Julian Petroleum stock scandal a Ponzi type scheme to rival any in American history and a foreshadowing of the decade's looming economic crash. As one of the scheme's victims Ohio probate officer Sarah Kaufman-still reeling from the KKK murders she helped solve in Tennessee-is in the city to attend the trial of the perpetrators in particular of the friend who convinced her to invest. Sarah is eager for justice and committed to seeing the trial through. She's glad she's alone that her lover Mitchell isn't there that after court she'll have time to herself. But when a Mexican woman she barely knows winds up dead Sarah's plans are thrown upside down. Suddenly she finds herself in a nightmarish trial by fire one that takes her from the glamour of Hollywood to the Tijuana frontier tests her deepest beliefs and leads her to discover not only a killer but a part of Los Angeles built on a terrible secret. Includes Readers Guide.</p>