Murderville — Carter Swart

Once they moved ahead with this, there would be no turning back. They'd be murderers. But after an agonizing moment of fruitless appraisal, he sighed and curtly nodded his head. The men moved back toward the trunk of the car pushing with a mighty grunt. the car rocked and groaned then slipped partly over the lip of the cliff, its destination a six-hundred foot plunge straight down to the rocky lakeshore below. The car slid over the edge of the world and disappeared. He thought he heard a faint scream just as the car dropped from sight. In moments it was over. A long silence...followed by a shattering crunch...then the muffled whump of the explosion, and finally the fireball that followed. ...thus begins MURDERVILLE, the latest mystery featuring Lou Corso, the tough ex-LAPD cop, security expert, and champion of battered women.