Voodoo river - robert crais

Los Angeles private eye Elvis Cole is hired by a famous television star to find her biological parents, and is drawn into a frightening web of deceit and danger when he discovers that the long-ago adoption was kept secret for a very good reason.

From the author of The Monkeys Raincoat and Free Fall.

Elvis Cole finds himself deep in the bayou of Louisiana searching for the estranged parents of a television star -- but something deadly is looking for him.

private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before.

Coles assignment is to find out their biological history and report back.

It seems all too clear cut.

But when he gets to Louisiana and begins his search, he finds that theres something much darker going on.

Other people are also looking for Taylors parents, and some are ending up dead.

And when Cole realizes that his employer knew more than she was telling, Voodoo River becomes a twisting tale of identity, secrets, and murder.