Eve Diamond Novels
4 total works
Los Angeles Times reporter Eve Diamond has spent the day at LAX, shadowing a U.S. Customs Supervisor who's got his eye on an incoming flight from Beijing via Seoul and Tokyo. The flight's packed with the usual mass of humanity, ranging from the elegant Asian woman in the raspberry silk suit who emerges from first class carrying a tired toddler, to the scruffy students who have spent the long flight in economy. Suddenly, shots ring out. Three people are dead, including the silk-clad woman. The man who was booked on the flight as the dead woman's husband is missing. And the sad little toddler is left behind. Who is this child? Her passport says she's Japanese, but she doesn't seem to understand the language. Was the dead woman really her mother? Why has the child made five transpacific flights in one year? And why do Customs and Immigration whisk her immediately into hiding? Eve knows she must uncover the answers, even though it means putting herself at risk. Her search takes her from L.A.'s sleazy hotels, cybercafes to the upscale milieu of trendy restaurants and high-powered human-rights lawyers.
Nothing is quite what it appears to be, and nobody seems to want Eve to find the child.
Nothing is quite what it appears to be, and nobody seems to want Eve to find the child.
Intrepid LA crime reporter Eve Diamond is back on the scene in this stylish, urban mystery. The body count this weekend is twenty-eight - and rising fast. Across the city, people are killing each other in gruesome ways. And Eve Diamond is writing it all down - in her routine roundup story for the LOS ANGELES TIMES. Then a distraught man bursts into the newsroom complaining about the police's apathy over the disappearance of his runaway daughter. To complicate matters, Eve is assigned to cover a potentially huge story involving a mayoral candidate and his Italian wife, Venus - whose body was discovered floating naked in her pool. Who killed Venus? And what is the significance of the sugar skulls - little confections for the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday - that Eve keeps seeing everywhere? As Eve unravels the mystery, she finds herself plunging into an overpowering love affair with Silvio Aguilar, the brooding scion of a music-industry titan. Against the backdrop of the mayoral election and the hallucinatory Day of the Dead celebrations, Eve tries to understand how vice, greed and the drive for power can transcend even the most entrenched of class divides.With her own life ultimately on the line, she must beat incredible odds to stave off devastation - and derail the murder conviction of the wrong person.
When her date is accused of the murder of a famous actress who failed to show up on opening night, Los Angeles Times reporter Eve Diamond investigates the case.
In her most personal story to date, Los Angeles Times bestselling author Hamilton plumbs her own family's Russian heritage to combine Cold War espionage and suspense in this spellbinding fifth installment of the Eve Diamond series.