Johnny Madrid, formerly known as "el gabacho" by his compatriots, is one tough hombre. With a Mexican father and a German mother he was born and raised in East L.A.'s notorious "Mara Villa"---a hotbed of drug-pushers, prostitutes, pimps and other assorted riffraff. Now, a detective with Hollywood Division's homicide unit and thirty-seven years later, he is faced with the most challenging and baffling case of his entire career. Rita Michaels, a young, beautiful, aspiring actress has been discovered assaulted and brutally murdered in her Bonita Terrace apartment. A shocking story that delves...

Inspired by three true-life SoCal homicide cases, "Anatomy of a Killer" becomes a labyrinth of shocking crime stories beginning with the disappearance of an Afghanistan Army veteran and the murder of his fiance. This is followed by the cold-case tale of an LAPD lady-cop who brutally murders her lover's wife. The trilogy is completed when a leading movie actor is bludgeoned to death by a pair of hustler-brothers in his Hollywood Hills mansion. Compelling...intriguing...a rich police procedural where no one of left unscathed in these sinister tales of greed and corruption...