Hollywood Taken, book twenty, in the Hollywood Alphabet Series, finds Detective Kate Sexton and her canine partner Bernie investigating the murder of an au pair for a wealthy couple. What initially looks like a sex crime takes on added dimensions when other girls are murdered. Kate soon realizes that she’s on the trail of a sex-trafficking ring that reaches into the highest echelons of Hollywood’s powerful elite. Things become even more complicated when Kate’s superiors want her out of town because a terrorist group with ties to her deceased father is active again. While Kate works a case in another jurisdiction, things in Hollywood turn dark and sinister as the terrorists converge on the city and the killing spree continues. Can Kate solve two crimes and stop the terrorists, at the same time she keeps her meddlesome best friends, Natalie and Mo, out of trouble? Only time, lots of twists and turns, and loads of laugh-out-loud humor will tell.