Murder... Now and Then

IF EVER ANYONE DESERVED TO DIE, IT WAS MILLIONAIRE VICTOR HOLYOAK.

Holyoak's favorite tactic was to kick people when they were down, then pick them up and kick them again. Now the great man himself was down--brutally stabbed to death in his penthouse apartment.

Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd felt a creepy sense of deja vu. For though certain he'd never seen Holyoak's scarred and bearded face before, he remembered one very like it--somewhere in the past. Hunting for answers drew Lloyd and his lover, Inspector Judy Hill, deep into the lives of those in the dead man's dangerous orbit: his terrified stepdaughter, her playboy husband, a broken cop, an ambitious hooker, all desperate souls with plausible motives. Yet in the end, Lloyd and Hill would solve two baffling mysteries--one now, one then, both deadly....