BROKEN WINDOWS IBD

Sinopsis

While the storm rages over California&rsquo,s notorious anti-illegal alien Proposition 187, a young woman climbs to the top of the famous Hollywood Sign&mdash,and jumps to her death. An undocumented day laborer is murdered. And a disbarred and desperate lawyer in Venice Beach places an ad in a local paper that says: &ldquo,Will Do Anything For Money.&rdquo, Private investigator Duke Rogers, infamous for solving the case of murdered starlet Teddie Matson, feels he must do &ldquo,penance&rdquo, for his inadvertent part in her death. To that end, he takes on the case of Carlos, the murdered day-laborer, as a favor to his sister Marisol, the housekeeper down the street from Duke&rsquo,s house. Duke must figure out what ties together Carlos&rsquo, murder, the ex-lawyer&rsquo,s desperate ad and the woman jumping from the sign? And who is the mysterious &ldquo,coyote&rdquo,? Amid the controversial political storm surrounding California&rsquo,s Proposition 187, Duke and his very unPC sidekick Jack are on the case. They slingshot from the Hollywood Sign to Venice Beach. From East Hollywood to the &ldquo,suicide bridge&rdquo, in Pasadena, and from Smuggler&rsquo,s Gulch near the Mexican border back to L.A. again. Their mission catapults them through a labyrinth of murder, intrigue and corruption of church and state that hovers around the immigration debate in this searing sequel to the explosive Shamus Award-winning novel White Heat. Praise for BROKEN WINDOWS: &ldquo,Fans of downbeat PI fiction will be satisfied&hellip,with Shamus Award winner Marks&rsquo,s solid sequel to 2012&rsquo,s White Heat.&rdquo, &mdash,Publishers Weekly &ldquo,Paul D. Marks&rsquo, Broken Windows is extraordinary. While the plot is both fascinating and timely, the real beauty of Broken Windows lies in his gorgeous authorial voice.&rdquo, &mdash,Betty Webb, Mystery Scene &ldquo,Marks expertly drops readers (returning and new) into Duke&rsquo,s world&mdash,1994 Los Angeles&mdash,from the start, and the prologue is a doozy. In it, a young woman climbs to the top of the Hollywood sign and jumps off. The scene isn&rsquo,t exploitative, but it is realistic and heart-wrenching in its realism. Although it&rsquo,s set in 1994, it&rsquo,s eerie how timely this story is. There&rsquo,s an undeniable feeling of unease that threads through the narrative, which virtually oozes with the grit, glitz, and attitude of L.A. in the &rsquo,90s. I&rsquo,m an ecstatic new fan of Duke&rsquo,s.&rdquo, &mdash,Kristin Centorcelli, Criminal Element &ldquo,This electrifying novel will jolt your sensibilities, stir your conscience and give every reader plenty of ammunition for the next mixed group where the I-word is spoken!&rdquo, &mdash,John Dwaine McKenna, The Mysterious Book Report &ldquo,[T]his entertaining tale, has the sly humour of a modern-day Philip Marlowe and a similar penchant for attracting trouble. Marks writes with an easy style that carries you through the story and creates engaging cha