With Intent to Kill Author:Dell Shannon TOUGHEST COP ON THE FORCE — Death never takes a holiday and especially in Los Angeles when the red, hot wind comes down from the mountain passes and people pick up guns and knives and hatchets--and that's when Homicide Lieutenant Luis Mendoza goes to work. Mendoza knows murder isn't fussy: it strikes in bright-blue sunlight over Sunset Boulevard... more » or when the stars glitter above the dark rims of Hollywood's exclusive canyons. But this time it was hitting harder than usual--three flower children in a crash pad, the wife of a prominent citizen, a beautiful young blond girl found naked and stone cold dead in an empty backyard. Hard and relentless, Mendoza knows LA from the shabby, imitation canals of Venice to the Hills of Beverly. LA is where Mendoz works--and he gets results like no other cop on the force.« less