Noir settings, snappy dialogue and hold-your-breath suspense make Behm's first novel a page-turner that will keep readers up at night and begging for more from this talented plot weaver." —Lynn Arias Bornstein, author of Laura English

It's the 1940s—wartime in San Francisco. Young, beautiful, ambitious radio actress Billie Desmond is living the high life until an unplanned pregnancy casts a dark shadow on her romance with local radio personality and darling of San Francisco Café Society, Payton Powell.

When her lover refuses Billie's demand they marry, she threatens to expose a secret that could land him in Federal prison for the rest of his life. Powell is not about to let that happen.

When Billie vanishes during a live radio broadcast, the SFPD mount a full investigation but fail to find any trace of the actress. The disappearance of Billie Desmond dead-ends in a cold case file; forgotten by law enforcement until Sheriff's Inspector Maxwell Sterling and his feisty wife Zoey Lassiter begin to pick up clues.

Drop Dead is the first in a series of murder mysteries featuring these two sleuths.