The Reb Riley Files #2: Perplexing Crimes During Dangerous Times

Hollywood, 2050. The future has arrived—and crime has gotten weird.

Rebel “Reb” Riley works vice for the Hollywood P.D., posing as a working girl on the Sunset Strip while her partners Malcolm and Jose provide backup. In a world still reeling from the deadly META virus, that’s dangerous enough. But Riley has a habit of stumbling into cases no ordinary police manual could possibly cover.

Six cheerleaders vanish. A murdered escort reportedly returns as a ghost. Women encounter a criminal they can see but somehow can’t remember. A string of mysterious drownings leads Riley toward a woman who may have taken the idea of becoming a mermaid much too far. And when women are found skinned alive without a single cut on their bodies, Riley must consider an explanation she never expected to take seriously.

Some cases can be solved with evidence, surveillance, forensic science, and stubborn police work. Others force Riley to confront technology that shouldn’t exist and things that aren’t supposed to be real.

Fortunately, Riley isn’t easily frightened.

Unfortunately, knowing when to leave well enough alone has never been one of her strengths.

Thirteen unusual crimes take Riley and her partners through the dangerous, funny, disturbing, and sometimes impossible streets of future Hollywood.

Perplexing Crimes During Dangerous Times is the second installment in The Reb Riley Files, combining futuristic crime fiction, police mysteries, science fiction, supernatural suspense, and Riley’s decidedly unconventional approach to law enforcement.