The Walls Come Tumbling Down: A Jericho Payne Novel

Los Angeles, 1974. Private investigator Jericho Payne regains consciousness on a cold warehouse floor in the Los Angeles Fashion District, beaten, bloodied, and with no memory of who put him there. Someone wanted him dead. They'll get another chance. When two U.S. Marshals and a federal witness are executed in a downtown hotel room, L.A.P.D. Lieutenant Frank Devereaux turns to the one man he trusts outside the system - Jericho Payne. The killers are professional, connected, and untouchable by any court that answers to the law. Which means they're not untouchable at all. While tracking the killers, Payne is working two other cases: the mysterious disappearance of a powerful attorney's wife and a City Hall bribery scheme threatening a group of small developers. At the same time, Payne finds himself drawn into a relationship with Laura Higuchi, an L.A.P.D. detective whose warmth and intelligence offer him something he thought he'd lost long ago - the possibility of a life beyond the violence. But in Payne's world, even love comes with consequences. Anchored by Payne's razor-sharp dry wit, his hard-won moral code, and his complicated relationship with the line between justice and the law, The Walls Come Tumbling Down is the third novel in Joel B. Miller's Jericho Payne series - and the darkest chapter yet.