Publishing June 2026
 
Set amongst the gorgeous people of the LA strip – a place that glories in the many film stars that have walked the streets there – the novel features eccentric private eye, Flamingo Torres. Flamingo is both haunted by getting old and the near-fatal car crash in Santa Monica that ended a high-flying LASD woman officer’s career, putting her in a wheelchair for life. He is also now on the trail of the killer of his best friend, Donny Ferrelli, who saved him when a teenager from complete oblivion.
 
Tangled up in Donny's murder are Angela Rivera, Hollywood royalty who is fleeing a secret from the past -  and owns the legendary Venice Beach tourist store, THIS IS LA, plus copious Beverly Hills real estate; Phillippe ‘Delphie’ Leonardo, the LA mob No 2 out for revenge for the child taken away from him; LAPD chief of detectives Lansky McEwan: intent on stopping graft and corruption – well for everyone else anyway. And finally, Chaney 'Strawberry Sugar' LeVal, a girl obsessed with Tinseltown's Golden Age who may hold the key to Donny's killing. And who Flamingo may just be falling in love with.
 
Lifetimes of Fame is the story of greed, ambition, love, romance and existential yearning in the Los Angeles sun. It could well be the the beginning of a brilliant series.