Coffin's Got the Dead Guy on the Inside — Keith Snyder

A SCORE TO DIE FOR
There's a heat wave in Pasadena. A soul band is playing down on Crenshaw. And a musician named Jason Keltner has put down his latest composition, "Untitled #23"--for a real job: spying on Paul Reno, a slacker who might be involved in a big-time cyber scam. For a struggling composer, it seemed like a pretty easy gig--until guys with guns start showing up at Jason's house, Paul Reno vanishes, and the guest of honor at a party makes his exit wearing a toe tag. And on a road strewn with seedy nightclubs, bad hotels. and friends gone wrong, Jason won't slow down until he unravels the truth: about Paul Reno, one strange little computer device, and a gig that paid good money--because the score was murder. . . .