chapter one

Police Report, July 5

Interview with Nika Mays of 8455 Fountain Ave., West Hollywood. Employed by the Virtuoso Artists Agency. Detective Matt Lopez interrogating.

Lopez: Can you describe your relationship with Chloe Gamble, please?

Mays: I’m her agent. I was, I mean.

Lopez: Were you familiar with her family … her mother, Earlene Gamble, and …

Mays: Travis, her twin brother. Yes, I knew Early and Travis.

Lopez: And the father, Lonnie Gamble?

Mays: I knew the rest of the family first. But I met Lonnie when he arrived in Los...