Tie Die by Max Tomlinson

This story started back in the 60's.  Steve was the lead singer in a band until he woke up with a dead under aged female in his bed.  Then he ran from the law because he didn't kill her but they didn't believe him...

Oceanview Publishing and Edelweiss let me read this book for review (thank you).  It will be published September 8th.

Now he has a problem of his own.  His young daughter has been kidnapped and he asks a P I to help him.  She hasn't gotten her approved license yet but she's willing.

As she looks into the case, she finds his ex has the kid and she's bought her a horse to keep her quiet.  She takes pictures and shows him.

When she goes to brace the ex about what's going on (they want the rights to his old songs), she finds her dead in her bedroom.  At first she suspects the husband.  He was very angry.  But then she decides he didn't do it.

The more people from his past she meets, the more dangerous it gets.  There's no lack of guns and they are  all big men.

It's a complex case with a producer who wants songs he never paid for, a nasty ex-wife and her father, and a bully who doesn't care if he kills people.

She's determined to get to the bottom of it and she does.  But it's good thing she had a gun and a knife with her...

Vanishing in the Haight by Max Tomlinson

Colleen Hayes killed her husband for molesting their daughter and went to jail.  She's now an ex-con who is acting like a private investigator.  The case she's given is a cold case that is over 10 years old.  The older man is dying and he wants to know who killed his oldest daughter.

Oceanview Publishing and Edelweiss let me read this book for review (thank you).  It will be published August 20th.

She begins asking questions.  As she stirs up attention to what she's looking into she's warned off by the cops.  She doesn't back down.  Then a retired cop she talked to and was going to give her a copy of his original police report doesn't make the meeting with her and is missing.  He's found.  Dead.  Now she's more determined than ever.

She talks to anybody who knew the dead woman and begins to put together an idea of what she thinks happened.  The only problem is that now the killer is on her trail...

With cops trying to kill her and the real killer after her, she has a lot of trouble.  There's more death but the lid comes off the case.  What's exposed is distasteful.  But even the big will fall.

I have to say that I liked the justice the wife of the retired cop dispensed.  She knew who killed him and she took care of it...