Rick Copp Fingerprints and Facelifts

Fingerprints and Facelifts

Rick Copp

Kensington, Jul 2007, $23.00

ISBN: 9780758209627

Back in the 1980s, the three L.A. Dolls were the best female private investigators around. However after a while they broke up the team as each had a different direction in mind and moved on with their lives. Tougher than tungsten Dani Mendez has become San Francisco's assistant chief of police but "mom" has constantly been ignored for the top job she deserves; soft nurturing Claire Walker-Corley has become a wife and mom burying her superhero days in the basement; and elegant Tess Monahan-Cardoza is a wealthy widow with a string of boy-toys

Everything changes for the trio when drug lord Benito Coronel is released from prison with a thirst for vengeance against the Charlie's Angels who sent him up the river. The first assault is on Claire's son Zak followed by someone firing a bullet at Dani's offspring Bowie; and soon afterward an attempted abduction of Tess' stepdaughter Bianca. The former L.A. Dolls know they must reunite to keep their children safe by burying their differences to return Coronel to jail.

FINGERPRINTS AND FACELIFTS is a terrific private investigative thriller in which readers have an idea of what could have happened to Charlie's Angels two decades after the highlight films stopped running. The story line is driven by the unique threesome, who are so different from one another, has squabbles between them to contend with, and yet are there for each other and their offspring. Los Angeles has not looked any better as fans will enjoy the frenzied resurrected L.A. Dolls kicking butt.

Harriet Klausner