A Shadow of Jaguars

In Mexico City for a family funeral, Detective DJ Arias encounters a group of Robin Hood–style thieves who call themselves the Jaguars. Their activities reach across the border into Los Angeles with a Hollywood murder that entangles LA’s elite and the nannies, housekeepers, and gardeners who serve them, and threatens DJ’s own loved ones. A follow up to the mystery A Punishing Breed, A Shadow of Jaguars finds DJ and partner Bobby Talbot struggling to untangle a murder where Hollywood, wealthy powerbrokers, and an immigrant population struggle to coexist and survive. Throughout it all, his faithful dog Evidence is by his side.

Advanced Praise

“The police procedural is given fresh rendition in Frost’s deft delivery taking us beyond physical and psychological borders into a Southland from where schemes and calamities spring. And a cop who is more than a cop, seeks answers because the dead demand justice in this topical, yet timeless excursion into human frailties.”

—Gary Phillips, author of The Haul