City of Fire

When a Businessman Arrives Home to Find His Wife in Bed, Carved From Belly to Throat With a Very Sharp Knife, the Elite Robbery-Homicide Division of the L.A.P.D Responds in Full Force and Detective Lena Gamble Prepares for Her First Major Case. at First All Fingers Point Towards the Victim's Husband, but Best-Case Scenarios Only Happen in Films and It Soon Transpires That This Murder is One of a Series of Brutal Crimes Against Women and the Work of a Killer Dubbed 'Romeo' by the Ravenous Hollywood Media.Lena is All Too Aware of the Peril of the Public Eye - She Has Found Herself in It Before, on the Night of Her Rock-Star Brother's Unsolved Murder Five Years Ago. and Now She Risks a Far More Dangerous Fame As a Cloud of Conspiracy Descends on Her Investigation and She Edges Towards Romeo's Deadly Line of Sight ...Lena Must Catch This Psychopath Before She Becomes His Next Glamorous Victim...'Ellis's Writing is a Cut Above That of Most Authors in the Crowded Serial-Killer Field' - "Sund