Eve Ronin · #5
Dream Town
A gated dream town for the megarich becomes a murderous nightmare in a riveting Eve Ronin thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.
Hidden Hills is a private celebrity enclave of white picket fences and horse trails that seems to exist in a dreamworld. But when reality superstar Kitty Winslow is killed within their gates and corpses are found in the vast state park outside them, LASD detective Eve Ronin realizes there is a deadly, razor-thin line between what’s real and what’s imagined.
Eve discovers that Kitty’s surreal on- and off-camera life, a blur of fact and fantasy, shockingly mirrors her own as she struggles to investigate the killings, wade into a music industry war, and battle a vicious Chilean gang—all while her life is being turned into a fictional cop show directed by her estranged father.
Eve’s grip on reality and the case is strained to the breaking point as the slayings continue, the media frenzy reaches a fever pitch, and the only inescapable truth she can see is death…and it’s coming for her.
The series
Los Angeles hides its secrets in plain sight, behind the walls of luxury homes, beneath wildfire-scorched hills, and inside the quiet corridors of power. At the center of that tangled landscape stands Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, trying to carve out truth in a place built on illusion.
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What begins as a hard-won promotion after a viral arrest soon becomes a relentless test of integrity. Each investigation pulls her deeper into the city’s contradictions: fame and failure, loyalty and betrayal, justice and corruption. With every case, Eve faces the uneasy question of whether the system she serves is worth the price it demands.
The series blends the precision of a police procedural with the tension of a psychological thriller. Set against the vivid sprawl of Southern California, from sunlit canyons to gated estates, it captures the uneasy rhythm of a world where everyone performs, and where the truth, once uncovered, can destroy as easily as it can heal.
Gritty, fast-paced, and grounded in moral complexity, this crime fiction series doesn’t just trace the path of a detective. It exposes the fragile boundary between ambition and obsession. For readers drawn to authentic law enforcement detail, layered mysteries, and the pulse of Los Angeles itself, these stories deliver a sharp, unflinching look at what it means to fight for justice in a city built on secrets.
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