Robert Valletta

Blood Running Hot Robert Valletta

Amid the sweltering heat of southern California, a serial killer with a passion for knives and naked bodies attacks their way across the affluent coastal neighborhoods of San Diego County. First, a banking executive is found slain in his beachfront hotel room. Then the nude body of a beautiful young woman, an ex-stripper and daughter of a local biotech CEO, is found slashed and brutalized in a public park. Former NYPD Detective Micheline Avila is still reeling from a failed marriage and the recent death of her mother. To avoid the painful memories of her past, Micheline leaves her old life behind and settles into a condo on the scenic Coronado peninsula overlooking San Diego Bay. As a detective with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, Micheline is absorbed in the investigations of the first two murder cases, while during her off-hours, she befriends a group of strangers who welcome her into her new west coast life. But the murder investigations grow increasingly cold, as do Micheline's relationships with her new friends. Suddenly Micheline finds herself alone and held at gunpoint during a bank robbery. In a heartbeat, the world as she knows it is flipped upside down.