Publisher's Synopsis
On a late November night, high in the hills above Los Angeles, a crime takes place that leaves the world stunned and shocked. A young, rising star is brutally murdered along with three of her friends. What starts out as a media frenzy soon becomes one of the most baffling murder mysteries the Southern California area has ever seen. Who killed Tanya Lynn Morris and her friends? For Detective William -Bill- Ryan, this case takes him from the temples of picturesque Kyoto, Japan to the bug infested jungles of Honduras in the hopes of some how finding a killer in this bizarre murder mystery. As Bill puts together the pieces to this puzzle, he has to go down multiple paths to find the killer. Could it be a Buddhist priestess, a brutal Honduran drug lord, a physic who can contact the spirit world, the evangelical Christian boyfriend of Tanya, or maybe the psychologist Tanya was seeing for counseling? There are multiple leads but who could it be? With pressure mounting from his boss, the governor and mayor, Bill is strained to come up with answers. As the reader finally discovers the perpetrator of the crime, who committed the act is only the beginning of the mystery. What the real truth is will shock you and lead you down a whole new path, questioning morality and how we view the world. The Starlet of Topanga Canyon, reveals tortured lives, heinous crimes but leads the reader on a journey not only for the mind but for their spirit as well. This is book 1 in the Rising Bridge Trilogy, a three part series that will raise the reader's consciousness to a world seldom seen by the human eye. Each book could change your life - revealing what really is important in life.
