MCBRIDE 2: THE CHAMELEON MURDER

When a society beauty gets knocked off, she takes more than her killer’s identity to the grave. Her own secrets have been buried as well. And only McBride can unearth them…

McBride (Emmy winner John Larroquette, The John Larroquette Show) has received a request for a favour from Dr. Margaret Weill (Annie Larussa, E.R.). One of her employees, Dudley Banks (Devon Gummersall, The Fugitive) is being held on murder charges. A dedicated caregiver for the elderly, Dudley just isn’t the type to take a life, yet the case against him is solid. He was offered a ride from Las Vegas to L.A. by filthy rich Whitney Collier (Maeve Quinlan, The Bold and the Beautiful), young wife of millionaire tycoon Hanson Collier (Steven Brand, The Scorpion King). She was found strangled in her car and her purse with a small fortune is cash was found hidden in Dudley’s apartment. No alibi. No explanations. Just hard evidence to convict him. But McBride isn’t all that convinced. Dudley claims they were being followed that night, Hanson has two mistresses, and the enigmatic Whitney, who kept a private suite at the Golden Bell Hotel in Vegas, doesn’t seem to have a past at all—let alone a future.

When McBride’s intrepid assistant, Phil (Matt Lutz, A Walk to Remember), shows Golden Bell owner Vincent Karpek (Robert Maffia, Cold Case) Whitney’s picture, Vincent is stunned at the news of her death. After all, it’s his wife Monica. That Karpek is the subject of an FBI investigation of a money-laundering scheme adds a new wrinkle to the case. So does a humble man named Walter Ferguson (no actor associated with this character). He claims that the dead woman is his actually his wife, Arlene. What’s clear is that this serial bride was bleeding three men dry of their fortunes, but which one rang her pretty little neck? Was Vanessa, Monica, or Arlene the victim? All three husbands have valid alibis which leads McBride to wonder, is it all a terrible coincidence? Could down-and-out Dudley, the man that McBride is defending, have murdered a pick-up for quick cash and exposed a bigamist by mistake? McBride isn’t going to bet his career on it.

A seasoned investigator, like McBride knows that when it comes to murder, there are still more motives, more suspects, and more surprises than he counted on. Especially when confronted with the triple-twists of The Chameleon Murder.