L.A. Burning
A Novel
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4.2 • 6 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An ex-con hits the streets of L.A. to find her twin sister’s killer. Is it a mission of justice—or a quest for vengeance?
Cody Bonner, identical twin, daughter of a major movie star, a teenage street kid in Los Angeles, a bank robber at nineteen, and a prison inmate at twenty. When she’s released after six years, she returns to L.A. with a purpose: to learn the truth about her sister Julie, who washed up on a Malibu beach a year earlier. The connection between the twins was so powerful that the day Julie died, Cody collapsed in the prison yard. Now that bond is driving her to seek justice—at any cost.
Using bootleg skills she learned in prison, Cody begins to peel back the layers of mystery. Her search leads her to the darker alleys behind the dazzle of the film business, and into the world of high-powered agents, high-priced call girls, and men with a taste for sexual violence. As she homes in on her mother’s powerful agent, Harry Groban, a man with ugly accusations of abuse in his past, Cody becomes more deeply enmeshed in the life she left behind as a teenager: her mother’s star power, her former classmates-turned-producers, glitzy parties, and a handsome former love who knows all the players. Is Groban at the center? Could there be others who had a hand in Julie’s murder?
As Cody gets closer to the truth, another ghost from her criminal past is stalking her—one that could put her back in prison for years.
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Cody Bonner, the vulnerable, tough-minded protagonist of this stunning thriller from Taylor (the Michael Cassidy series writing as David C. Taylor), rejected the decorative social role intended for her as a movie star's daughter and instead slid into addiction and crime as a teen. After serving six years in prison for a bank robbery, she's now intent on solving the murder of her identical twin, Julie, a lawyer whose body was found on a Malibu beach two years earlier. While she's gathering information from her high school friends who are now showbiz execs, her attention is drawn to Harry Groban, her mother's powerful agent, who has allegedly sexually abused young women. When she learns that Julie had been investigating Groban, she begins feverishly planning her revenge. But she hasn't been paying enough attention to a determined LAPD lieutenant, who's out to nail her for the bank robberies she got away with. As the action builds relentlessly to an apocalyptic conclusion in the heart of a Southern California wildfire, Taylor reveals how complex human motivation can be. He's upped his game with this frightening, exciting eye-opener.
