Stephen Smoke

Pacific Coast Highway Stephen Smoke

FINAL CUT Retired, no longer chief of detectives, Derek Cheney plans to lavish his time on his exquisite wife, Elizabeth. But then a wealthy neighbor asks Cheney to investigate a hit-and-run death that was no accident. A seductive reporter refuses to take no for an answer. A young woman is found viciously murdered. Then another...and another. Soon Cheney's marriage is slipping away as he follows the cold ten-year-old trail of a serial killer from Las Vegas to the L. A. studio where a brilliant madman splices his obsessions into a chilling vision of passion, betrayal, and terror-and the final cut is death.