Blake can''t believe that the Miranda Sugarman could have come to this, and the private investigator in him can''t help but
ask ''Why ?'' -- so that''s what he does, investigating her murder. Leo, his boss -- a former cop who has seen it all and knows better -- warns him off, but Blake can''t be stopped.
In trying to figure out what happened, Blake has to reconstruct how Miranda got there, and he traces her descent into this business -- which turns out not to be as simple as he first thinks.
procedural -- and fun tour of the stripping industry -- though the biggest plot twists are too obvious, telegraphed quite a
bit too far away.
Blake does get himself beaten up a couple of times too often, and occasionally the narrative threatens to get a bit ponderous as Aleas tries to make the material a bit more weighty than it can bear.