Shooting Stars (Carla Cruz Crime Thriller series)

A crime thriller with a strong female lead for fans of J.A. Jance, L.T. Ryan, Susan Hunter, Robert Campbell, Daniel Pyne.

He’s famous.

He’s wealthy.

He’s a serial killer.

Former DEA agent Carla Cruz is trying to qualify for a new career as a private investigator when she gets involved in the high-profile case of a famous actress framed for murder. The police have enough evidence to send the actress to prison, but Carla can’t shake the feeling that the Church of the Golden is involved.

The Goldies teach their members that they can do anything if they learn to unleash the Sleeping Gods within them, but now they’ve created a monster. Ryan Dane, one of the world’s biggest action stars and the church’s biggest donor, is killing the competition—literally.

When you’re famous, you can get away with murder.

Hunted by relentless assassins from her past, Carla must infiltrate the self-improvement cult as celebrities continue to be killed in unusually dramatic ways. When the murders strike closer to home, Carla must decide if she can fight monsters without becoming one herself.

They’ve always said the film industry is a cutthroat business.

Shooting Stars is second in the Carla Cruz crime thriller series, and the first is A Memory of Fire, but all books in the series can be read as standalone novels.

Bruce Balfour, national bestselling author of The Forge of Mars, The Digital Dead, and 2024 Amazon Charts bestseller Deadfall (as B.J. Balfour), transports readers into life and death on the mean streets of Tinseltown, where everyone is a