Heartbreaker

February 1971On the morning of the devastating Sylmar Earthquake, pop sensation Vicki La Monica isfound dead in her Hollywood Hills home. Police, busy with the earthquake disaster,want to close the case quickly, calling it a drug overdose. After all, it has only beenweeks since the famous drug-deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.Vicki&'s father won';t buy it. Chuck Donnegan is a retired LAPD homicide detective and he knows his daughterwould never take drugs. He dives into the...
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February 1971On the morning of the devastating Sylmar Earthquake, pop sensation Vicki La Monica isfound dead in her Hollywood Hills home. Police, busy with the earthquake disaster,want to close the case quickly, calling it a drug overdose. After all, it has only beenweeks since the famous drug-deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.Vicki&'s father won';t buy it. Chuck Donnegan is a retired LAPD homicide detective and he knows his daughterwould never take drugs. He dives into the ultra-hip world of the seventies music sceneand begins a citywide search for Vicki's missing boyfriend. He barges in on her friends,her manager, a rival singer, her record label, and the mysterious Japaneseentertainment conglomerate about to buy them. Out of place, physically and emotionally exhausted, Chuck's public criticism of the policecauses the media to focus on Chuck. They brand him The Vigilante Dad, follow himeverywhere and train cameras on his every move. And now someone wants him dead.