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by Christa Faust Angel Dare is a retired porn star, but she’s still connected to the business through the adult modeling agency she runs, Daring Angels. When she gets a call from her old friend, Sam Hammer, asking for a favor and inviting her back to star in one last film, she’s excited by the prospect of working with the industry’s newest hot young stud and by the idea that maybe she isn’t quite past her prime. But when she shows up for the shoot, everything goes bad in a hurry and Angel is left for dead in the trunk of a car. Thanks to an inept shooter and Angel’s own survival instincts, she makes it out alive, only to learn that she is now the prime suspect in Hammer’s murder. Angel is determined to find out who murdered Sam, why he set her up, and to exact her own revenge on those responsible for all of it. Angel soon hooks up with Lalo Malloy, her new security help at Daring Angels. Lalo is a shady character in his own right, but he is the only one she trusts. With his help, she begins ferreting out how and why things went wrong. But the further she digs, the more confused she becomes, and when her original attackers learn that she’s still alive, the game becomes even more dangerous. Money Shot isn’t for the squeamish. Not only does the story take place in the seedy underworld of the porn industry in the less than glitzy parts of Los Angeles, but the bodies pile up fast in quick flurries of violence. Faust is Hard Case Crime’s first female author and she more than lives up to the noir tradition of blunt prose, fast action and down and dirty characters. Her most significant trick, though, is creating a heroine who is completely real and engaging, someone the reader can’t help but root for, despite her flaws. Money Shot is an excellent entry into the contemporary noir library. |
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Money Shot