Sunset and Santiago

METAL ON METAL

In every life there's a turning point. For Ronnie Ventana, it came at the corner of Sunset and Santiago, the San Francisco intersection where her parents died in a car crash twenty years before. Now, at two A.M. on the same corner, Ronnie has witnessed two men dumping a body in the shrubs--and suddenly she's in the middle of a case that will take her through a tunnel of corruption and back into the past.

Following a trail of clues into a world where doorbells are adorned with plastic saints and salsa music blares, Ronnie uncovers the identity of the dead John Doe and a killer who has the D.A.'s private beeper number. But when she digs even further, she uncovers a truth that's as disturbing as the piercing scream of metal on metal--and as haunting as a memory that just won't go away....