California Natural

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Brighton Doyle has a Los Angeles-based P.I. business that shes inherited; an office on funky Venice boardwalk; a glamorous movie-star sister; and a hole in her life where her late fiance used to be. Her missing persons business is starting to feel stale now that she can do much of her skip-tracing on the computer. Then her life is shaken up when she hauls in a couple of would-be desperadoes on the lam in the Arizona desert. Assuming her involvement with the inept siblings is over, shes incredulous when their lawyer asks her to find their own kidnap victim who has vanished. All evidence to the contrary, the brothers swear they left Virginia Burgess alive. So where is she?Brightons search for the missing woman takes her from behind the false front of Hollywood to the mountain resorts of Southern California, where matters go down-hill fast. By the time she knows the truth, shes encountered corruption, personal betrayal and murder. To make matters worse, every step of her investigation is dogged by tabloid news reporter, Rick McVee: a complication in more ways than one.