Naked Addiction

New York Times-bestselling author: A California cop plunges into the gritty secrets of a wealthy enclave in this psychologically complex crime thriller. Tired of working undercover narcotics, police detective Ken Goode wants a transfer to homicide. After the Camus-reading surfer finds the body of a beautiful woman in an alley, he is assigned to head a team of relief detectives with the hopes of proving he is homicide-worthy.   As Goode...
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New York Times-bestselling author: A California cop plunges into the gritty secrets of a wealthy enclave in this psychologically complex crime thriller.

Tired of working undercover narcotics, police detective Ken Goode wants a transfer to homicide. After the Camus-reading surfer finds the body of a beautiful woman in an alley, he is assigned to head a team of relief detectives with the hopes of proving he is homicide-worthy.
 
As Goode explores the underbelly of the affluent coastal enclave of La Jolla, California, and its hipster neighbor, Pacific Beach, he clashes with the patrons and employees of a neighborhood bar: real estate agents and beauty school students who have possible ties to an escort service and a drug ring--and keep turning up dead. The untimely disappearance of Goode's sister proves a worrisome distraction as he chases suspects and a dogged cub reporter chases him. This intricately layered crime thriller revolves around a cast of characters who use addictions to try to fill the empty spaces within themselves--whether their drug of choice is sex, alcohol, cocaine, cigarettes, or in Goode's case, caffeine and damaged women.
 
"Rother is a keen architect of the most important part of storytelling: character." --Michael Connelly
 
"A strong debut from a perceptive and unflinching writer." --T. Jefferson Parker