num_pages: 296
description: Jill, a part-time bookseller and full-time wise-ass, buys a first edition Jack London from a slippery-looking dwarf. The dwarf returns soon after with a polite assassin who wants the book back. Unfortunately Jill has already unloaded it for a nice profit, to a former child actor turned book dealer turned love interest. She isn't about to drop the dime on him, so the upshot is, Jill has to find it -- or else. What at first seems like a lucky break turns into unexpected adventure when a cast of B-movie thugs, sleazy book dealers, and ambitious Hollywood moguls join the hunt for the book. Jill finds herself leading an antic chase -- via motorcycle, station wagon, and hijacked bottled-water delivery truck -- across Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and the Hollywood Hills. Before she can retrieve the book and discover its irresistible secret, Jill will be cheated, lied to, drugged, tortured, and even forced to act as a movie extra against her will.
language: English
title: Like a Hole in the Head
titlecomplete: Like a Hole in the Head
genres: Crime, Novels, Book Club, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Comedy, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 690
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best First PI Novel
publisher: Mysterious Press