It was a massacre that sent shockwaves throughout the world when it was discovered (inferred) that the deceased made up the roster of the famed Janus Society. They were all found, shot to death in a mansion on Star Island. So, let’s start at the top…įormer Miami police detective Lila Day is haunted by the case she was never able to solve, the mass murder of twelve of the city’s wealthiest. Truth be told, the time travel conceit at the very heart of this book is one of several problems with The Rich and the Dead. Most viewers are a little more knowledgeable but, hey, I’m sure there a few under-rock-dwelling neophytes who might actually consider it a singular achievement. movie and being dazzled by the visual effects. It’s like sitting down to watch the 1978 Dr. And that’s what we have here: a time travel novel for non time-travel-savvy readers. It is, on the other hand, relatively simple to write if you merely pay lip service to said rules and then proceed to either ignore or violate them over the course of your narrative. Time travel fiction is notoriously difficult to write, fraught as it is with complicated theoretical rules related to grandfather paradoxes and butterfly effects. Now Lila must be willing to say good-bye-or risk setting into motion events that could change the future forever.
Easy enough, until she starts to care for the people who are destined to die. There's one catch: she must gather the evidence to bring the murderer to justice in her own time, without trying to save anyone. With nothing left to lose, Lila travels back in time to 2014, determined to stop the Star Island killer once and for all. After all, how do you solve a crime when all the leads have long grown cold? The answer, Teddy tells her, is to be there before it happened. He has a job for her, he says-solving the Star Island murders. Years later, down on her luck and no longer a police officer, Lila is approached by mysterious billionaire Teddy Hawkins. But that was before she was pushed out from the force, and her life unraveled.
In 2018, the murderer remains at large.Īs a detective and lead investigator on the case of the century, Lila Day was consumed by her hunt for the Star Island Killer. On New Year's Day 2015, twelve powerful, wealthy people were found dead-shot in a lavish Star Island estate. In collaboration with branding powerhouse Alloy Entertainment comes a thrilling new series featuring a former Miami PD detective on the hunt for a mass murderer, who must face the past she thought she left behind. In exclusive Star Island, Miami, money and power can't protect you.
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