ROBERT S. LEVINSON reads from his novel THE EVIL DEEDS WE DO

The Evil Deeds We Do (Five Star)

The evil deeds we do are often the things we do for love.

Lainie Davis Gardner’s past comes back to haunt the one-time record industry powerhouse in the complex, gripping, often intense tale bestselling author Robert S. Levinson weaves in The Evil Deeds We Do, his twelfth mystery-thriller. First, she’s confronted by L.A. Assistant D.A Harry Roman, who promises he’ll soon prove Lainie was behind the murder of her husband, Roy. Next, the mayor’s chief advisor, Thom Newberry, Lainie’s one-time lover, offers her a permanent solution to her problem with Roman, but it comes at a steep price, one Lainie agrees to pay on Newberry’s guarantee it will keep her from ever losing custody of her troubled, trouble-inspiring teenage daughter, Sara.

She has six weeks to locate and steal a file secreted in heavily guarded quarters by brutish Leonard Volkman, who runs a vast financial empire and was, she believes, behind Roy’s financial downfall. She strikes a partnership deal with Volkman to create a label built around singer-songwriter Miranda Morgan and reluctantly accepts help from Rod Flynn, a gregarious Irishman operating Volkman’s bogus film production company. Events escalate to include fading movie star Lance Clifford; Chips Crandall, Lainie’s nemesis during her time behind bars; Berry Berryman, a notorious hoodlum; music impresario Benny Sugar; and Newberry’s teenage son, Jerry, whose relationship with Lainie’s daughter Sara causes a series of twists that culminate in multiple deaths and heartbreaking tragedy.

Robert S. Levinson is the bestselling author of twelve mystery-thrillers, among them Finders, Keepers, Losers, Weepers, Phony Tinsel, A Rhumba in Waltz Time, The Traitor in Us All, and Ask a Dead Man. His short stories appear frequently in the Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazines. He is a Derringer Award winner, a Shamus Award nominee, and regularly included in “year’s best” anthologies. Bob served four years on Mystery Writers of America’s (MWA) national board of directors. He wrote and produced two MWA Edgar Awards shows and two International Thriller Writers Thriller Awards shows. His work has been praised by Nelson DeMille, Clive Cussler, Joseph Wambaugh, Margaret Maron, David Morrell, Jeffery Deaver, T. Jefferson Parker, Willliam Link, John Lescroart, James Rollins, Joseph Finder, Margaret Maron, Thomas Perry, William Kent Krueger, and others. He resides in Los Angeles with his spouse, Sandra, and Rosie, their mixed-breed rescue pooch, who believes she rescued them. More atwww.robertslevinson.com.