Rhapsody in Blood: A Benjamin Justice Novel

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.

Benjamin Justice, a discredited former journalist, is at loose ends and between freelance jobs when he agrees to take a short trip with his close friend, Los Angeles Times reporter Alexandra Templeton. Together they drive to a faded resort hotel in a small, remote town known as Haunted Springs. Once a famous getaway for celebrities, in the 1950's it was the site of a violent death of Rebecca Fox, a Hollywood beauty, and the lynching of a local black man, Ed Jones, accused of her murder - the last lynching in California. Now a film is being made in Haunted Springs about these tragic events, which Templeton will report on for her newspaper while Justice settles in for a much needed vacation away from his West Hollywood home.

But the film shoot turns out to be the production from hell. The unexpected appearance - and subsequent brutal murder - of feared Hollywood gossip writer Toni Pebbles throws the production into chaos. Suspicion and fear run rampant, adding to the greed, envy, romance, and other passions already sizzling among the cast and crew. Justice finds himself deeply enmeshed in the mystery of two old deaths and a new murder as he tries to uncover the truth buried in the dark history of Haunted Springs - before the killer strikes again.