The Murderous Haircut of the Mayor of Bel Air - (Psychic Barber Mysteries) by Phillip Mottaz (Paperback)

About the Book

As a hairstylist with psychic powers, Danica Luman uses her power to give great haircuts. But things get too hairy when one day she looks into the mind of a customer and sees a dead body.

Book Synopsis

CUT HAIR - READ MINDS - SOLVE A MURDER

Make your appointment for a fun amateur sleuth story that's one part "The Long Goodbye," dabs of "Blanche on the Lam" and "Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" with just a little X-Men mixed in, too.

DANICA LUMAN has used her secret psychic abilities to squeeze by in the San Fernando Valley. Her powers help her give great haircuts - she sees into customers' minds and knows exactly what styles they want. Things are steady until one day, while giving a strange man a high-and-tight, the image Danica sees is of a dead body.

What Danica lacks in detective training, she makes up for in stubbornness. She takes on the role of amateur detective only to sink deeper into the muddy mystery, with each clue dragging her further into the weird underbelly of Los Angeles. Fighting off unpaid bills, attempts on her life and dangerous family squabbles, Danica gets tangled up trying to solve the murder and discover how it connects to the cops, a student newspaper, and an old man who calls himself "the Mayor of Bel Air."

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Review Quotes

"I thought this book was so good... The author has brought in modern-day ways of thinking and lifestyles and what the issues are in the world today kind of thing in our communities and he's tied it in with old-school mystery writing, which I don't know if you can beat that if you love mystery."

Michele from YouTube's 'Books Cause Insomnia'