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Bad Scene: A Colleen Hayes Mystery

1978 San Francisco. A cult leader in Ecuador. One woman’s struggle to reconnect with her lost daughter before it is too late.

When PI and ex-con, Colleen Hayes, learns that a local neo-Nazi group is talking about shooting the mayor, she thinks it’s just another rumor --- until her source, a humble street newspaper vendor, winds up in SF General, beaten to a pulp.

To add to her grief, she discovers that her runaway daughter, Pamela, might have joined a shadowy religious group, building a church in South America near a volcano that is about to erupt. Death is the path to perfection according to the charismatic young preacher—and the date is fast approaching.

Colleen is desperate to find a way to stop her daughter from making the ultimate mistake before she --- along with hundreds of others --- lose their lives.

Bad Scene: A Colleen Hayes Mystery
by Max Tomlinson

  • Publication Date: August 3, 2021
  • Genres: Fiction, Mystery
  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 160809345X
  • ISBN-13: 9781608093458