Cold Trail — Dell Shannon

The body of a woman from respectable, conservative Glendale is found stashed under a ramshackle house in the middle of the inner city. Detective Luis Mendoza marks the rising heat by the crime and violence raging through the sunbaked streets of Los Angeles. and it's going to be a hot one. .A thug is shot to death. A mysterious string of robberies continue unabated. all w/out a clue. But the family-man cop knows that where there's heat, there's fire--and a cold trail to nowhere promises to turn into a red-hot path leading straight to the damned.