Edgar Award finalist Timothy Hallinan continues his six-book Simeon Grist series with this white-knuckle mystery-a must-listen for fans of Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels. Simeon Grist knows LA inside and out-the sex for sale, the chic seductions, every rip-off from City Hall to Venice. So when he's hired by a Hollywood recording company to shadow one Sally Oldfield, suspected of embezzlement, Grist discovers she's entangled in the Church of the Eternal Moment-a million-dollar religious scam built around a twelve-year-old channeler and the voice of a man who has been dead for a millennium. When Sally turns up dead, Simeon knows he's become the next target of a very flesh-and-blood entity waiting in the back alleys of sin and salvation to give him a brutal look at the four last things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell-revelations he could definitely live without.
"Hallinan has a genuine ability to write effective prose, engaging repartee, [and] sharp and witty characterizations."
Washington Post Book World
"Terrific, well-crafted, thoroughly satisfying…updates Raymond Chandler's vision of life in Los Angeles through Grist's sardonic, often hilarious observations…leaves one looking forward to Hallinan's future endeavors."
