A man is found dead with a bullet hole in his chest, and private detective Brett Cornell is the #1 suspect.Could it be because he'd been seen punching the guy around only a few days earlier? Or -- more likely -- because the police have discovered that the fatal bullet had been fired from HIS gun?In the second novel of this detective series set in the late 1980s, self-proclaimed unscrupulous bastard Brett Cornell has to figure out who's trying to set him up: His lovely but meek new client? Her equally lovely but far from meek room-mate? Or the beautiful and dynamic aerobics instructor he's recently taken up with?In the meantime, Brett's legendary Adonis-like features (as he calls them) get severely damaged when he ends up catching the beating of his life -- emotionally as well as physically -- before he finally nails the identity of the real killer!