Darkness is nothing new to LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan, but in P.J. Tracys The Devil You Know, even she isnt prepared for the scandalous deception of deadly proportions that shakes the very foundation of Hollywood and its untouchablesand leaves her entangled in its rotten core.

Los Angeles has many faces: the real LA where regular people live and work, the degenerate underbelly of any big city, and the rarefied world of wealth, power, and celebrity. LAPD Detective Margaret Nolans latest case plunges her into this insular realm of privilege, and gives her a glimpse of the decay behind the glitter.

Beloved actor Evan Hobbes is found in the rubble of a Malibu rockslide, a day after a fake video ruins his career. Its not clear to Nolan if its an accident, a suicide, or a murder, and things get murkier as the investigation expands to his luminary friends and colleagues. Meanwhile, Hobbess agent is dealing with damage control, his psychotic boss, and a woman hes scorned.