CONTEMPT OF COURT (The Charlie Trust legal thrillers)

Five boxes full of secrets. A missing wife. And a lawyer who just wants to be left alone. Atmospheric, sharp, and relentless, this is the story of a man who tried to walk away from the law, only to find it waiting for him in the California sun. It’s 1992 in Los Angeles. The riots are over, the Menendez brothers are awaiting trial, and Charlie Trust is living in a borrowed beach house in Malibu right next door to Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal just trying to figure out what comes next for him. After inheriting a little money and a lot of burnout, Charlie left Virginia to run the Pacific Coast Highway in a cherry red 1969 Mustang. Now he spends his days reading Raymond Chandler paperbacks and watching the gulls on Carbon Beach. But his quiet life of reinvention is interrupted when the friend who loaned him the house asks for a little favor in return. Talk with Emma Scott, a woman trapped in a divorce from one of Hollywood's most powerful television producers. Just one conversation. Just some friendly advice. How could Charlie possibly say no? It turns out that Emma Scott isn't a scorned wife looking for casual advice. She's the keeper of her husband's darkest secrets.