Search - Coffin's Got the Dead Guy on the Inside

From the back cover:

There's a heat wave in Pasadena. A soul band is playing down on Crenshaw. And a musician named Jason Keltner has put down his latest composition, "Untitled #23" - for a real job: spying on Paul Reno, a slacker who might be involved in a big-time cyber scam. For a struggling composer, it seemed like a pretty easy gig-until guys with guns start showing up at Jason's house, Paul Reno vanishes, and the guest of honor at a party makes his exit wearing a toe tag. And on a road strewn with seedy nightclubs, bad hotels, and friends gone wrong, Jason won't slow down until he unravels the truth: about Paul Reno, one strange little computer device, and a gig that paid good money because the score was murder...