It's a bloodthirsty town, Hollywood. No matter how popular you are, there's always someone who d be happier if you were dead. And in some cases, you can be such a bastard, everyone would be happier if you were dead. Barry Gerber, one of the most hated men in Hollywood, is a no-show for a red carpet event. The next morning he turns up dead, killed in such a bizarre way that neither Detectives Mike Lomax nor Terry Biggs nor anyone in Forensics has ever seen anything like it before. Two days later, the prime suspect - another despised show-business bad boy - is found murdered in the same sadistic manner. The list of suspects then becomes as long as the credits in a summer blockbuster. Everyone hated the murdered men. Biggs jokes that this could be an elaborate public service effort to make Hollywood a better place to live and work. But he and Lomax soon find that all jokes are off as they wade through a daunting number of leads to uncover who will be the next victim. What they stumble upon is a motive far more primal than they had ever imagined. Fast-paced, razor-sharp, and intensely funny, Bloodthirsty reunites Lomax and Biggs - the mystery genre's new dynamic duo. "With its har-har banter and well-paced, undemanding plot, Karp's Tinseltown kiss-off reads like a solid Hollywood buddy-cop thriller." --Entertainment Weekly "...just the right blend of belly laughs and suspense... Karp knows his way around the entertainment business. His depictions of its myriad personalities are hilarious and dead-on." --Booklist (starred review) "Bloodthirsty's stand-up-comic twist to the crime novel is a pleasant change of pace." --Star-Telegram An award-winning advertising executive, Marshall Karp has also written for stage, screen, and television. Bloodthirsty is the second novel in the Lomax-Biggs series following 'The Rabbit Factory.' His first feature film, Just Looking, directed by Jason Alexander, was released in 2000. Having spent time on both East and West Coasts, he now lives in upstate New York, where he is at work on the third title in his Lomax-Biggs mystery series Used Book in Good Condition