MCBRIDE 3: ITS MURDER MADAM

When an expert in the high cost of love crosses paths with a professional in the high price of crime, it can only lead to murder.

Beverly Hills Madam Heather Bradley has given the straight and narrow a shot. Unfortunately that road has only led to a stack of unpaid bills and a collection notice. How lucky that Marilyn Foster, an aspiring—and penniless—actress from Omaha is in need of Heather’s services. But when the strictly hands-off date Heather arranges for Marilyn with a respectable older gentleman gets out of hand, an enraged Marilyn storms Heather’s home. What she finds is the enterprising Madam permanently out of business—her skull bashed in with a fire poker. Rarely has a fresh-scrubbed innocent looked so guilty.

Investigator McBride (Emmy winner John Larroquette, The John Larroquette Show) may believe Marilyn’s account of the story—including her version of the attack in the client’s penthouse—but it doesn’t bring him any closer to finding the killer. Then he stumbles upon incriminating e-mails from Heather to three strangers with the provocative screen names of Heartthrob, Nero, and Untouchable. It appears that each one of them is a victim of Heather’s blackmail plot. A perfect motive and three perfect suspects. Simple? Not to McBride. Because Heather’s dirty little secrets have claimed more victims than the investigator counted on—and it’s going to take more than one murder to keep them from getting spilled.

Join McBride as he’s escorted into the mysteries of a woman’s little black book—and proves his mettle once again in one of the most seductive cases of his career.