Nighttown

• About the book

Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender is about to break his own cardinal rule about burglaries: never take a job that pays too well, because someone will end up dead. But he and his girlfriend, Ronnie, need cash; and so Junior takes a job from a nameless woman in an orange wig who offers him fifty grand to break into the house of a recently deceased 97-year-old. The target: a doll. It doesn t take Junior long to realise others are after the doll too, and when an old friend is murdered; he decides he will stop at nothing to figure out who the woman in the orange wig is, and why she wants the doll.