Full name: Sugar Skull: An Eve Diamond Novel

Author: Denise Hamilton Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780743482219 0743482212

Denise Hamilton, whose phenomenal debut, "The Jasmine Trade, " was an Edgar Award finalist that Michael Connelly hailed as gripping...intriguing...more than a good crime novel," brings back her tenacious heroine, Eve Diamond, in an electrifying new novel of suspense.When a distraught father breaks past security to beg for her help, "Los Angeles Times" reporter Eve Diamond can't refuse. His daughter, caught up in the rough "squatter" lifestyle, is missing -- and Eve, sensing a scoop, wants to know why a privileged teen from Pasadena would hook up with the dregs of Hollywood. When the girl is found dead, Eve suspects there is more going on than the tragic death of a rebellious youth. The search for answers will take Eve from the street world of drugs and sex to the upper echelon of L.A. society -- who don't appreciate her digging up their dirt. Even as Eve fights against the powers-that-be who want her off the story, she finds herself mixing business and pleasure when she's irresistibly drawn to the brooding son of a Mexican music titan. For it is in his world -- and in the intricate sugar skulls that mark the Mexican "Day of the Dead" -- that Eve may find the key to unmasking a killer.... This book is part of the "Eve Diamond Mystery" series. Here are some other books from this series: "Prisoner of Memory" First published in 2006 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Savage Garden" First published in 2005 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Last Lullaby" First published in 2004 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Jasmine Trade" First published in 2001 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: Savage Garden by Denise Hamilton Prisoner of Memory by Denise Hamilton The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton Last Lullaby by Denise Hamilton North Of Montana by April Smith The Fame Thief by Timothy Hallinan Case of Lies by Perri O'Shaughnessy Little Elvises by Timothy Hallinan Sleep and His Brother by Peter Dickinson Street Dreams by Faye Kellerman Folly by Laurie R. King Next Victim by Michael Prescott Dead Men Tell No Tales by E. W. Hornung Slow Fire by Ken Mercer Gun Games by Faye Kellerman Trick of the Eye by Jane Stanton Hitchcock The Lady Vanishes by Ethel Lina White You Be the Jury by Marvin Miller Choke by Stuart Woods The Last Embrace by Denise Hamilton