Philip M. Cohen

Conflict in the City Philip M. Cohen

Mixing and blending the genres of detective noir and music, Conflict in the City takes place in greater Los Angeles, home to both classic and modern fictional L. A. detectives like Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe and Michael Connolly's Harry Bosch. Los Angeles is also the center of the music universe, where the Doors, Van Halen, and N. W. A., among so many others, got their starts.

It's in this world that we find Johnny "Whoops" Watson and Billy Bates, young guitarists/singers and their band, Conflict, playing clubs in modern LA, where the days of rock's zenith and ascendance in the 1960s and 1970s has faded but the hopes and dreams of aspiring musicians haven't. Conflict is struggling and chaos ensues when someone linked closely to the band is killed. Billy and Johnny become swept up in the mystery, ill-prepared as they are to confront it. The novel is the first in a series.