Glitzy Murder

A dead paparazzo. A vanished trophy wife. 48 hours before Vegas buries them both.

Rodney Catcher made millions turning celebrity shame into front-page gold—until someone put a bullet through his skull in a Waldorf-Astoria penthouse. The only witness: security footage of his knockout wife Penny, wheeling a Louis Vuitton bag into the neon darkness. Then she vanishes like smoke.

Detective Prem Pilot thought he'd left the sleepless nights behind when Seattle kicked him to the Vegas wasteland. The department brass see trouble coming: beautiful wife, dead rich husband, complicated case. They want to saddle him with a partner. But Pilot's a lone wolf who doesn't need backup. He's been a cop too long to trust anyone else. In Sin City, nothing's ever what it seems.

His investigation tears through Vegas's glittering underbelly—a rival photographer with blood under his fingernails, a gambling addict packing a Nazi-era pistol, and two mob collectors who deal in blood-stained celebrity memorabilia. Everyone's got secrets. Everyone's got a price. And everyone's lying.

When the bodies start stacking up, Pilot realizes he's hunting more than a missing wife. He's chasing a killer who knows Vegas's oldest rule: In this city, death appears when the gun disappears.

From high-stakes poker rooms to abandoned desert airstrips, Pilot races against time to find Penny before the city's darkness claims them both. But in Vegas, the deadliest gamble is trusting a beautiful woman with murder in her eyes.