Book description
Last time it was stolen weed and knockoff designer shampoo. This time
it is the seemingly trivial occurrence of a few pilfered honeybee
colonies that propel former hippie and merry prankster Harry Stein
into the multitrillion-dollar world of the honeybee industry. In the
presence of six trillion bees to pollinate millions of acres of almond
trees, Stein, who is deathly allergic to bee stings, discovers the
natural catastrophe of colony collapse, and a corrupt grab by
organized AGROBIZ for all of the available water in Southern California.
In his absence, Harry's daughter Angie and his woman friend Lila's
very attractive seventeen-year-old stepson find an elephant tusk that
has been carried in to Lila's pool on an underground seepage from the
nearby La Brea Tar Pits. When the rest of the skeleton emerges, it
turns out not to be the prehistoric mammoth they'd hoped it would be,
but a human being who just might have been murdered in the 1920s. The
perpetrator of the eighty-year-old murder is still alive and the most
powerful man in Los Angeles and will do anything necessary to keep the
secret hidden.
"Sly humor abounds in Ackerman's second mystery, featuring
aging L. A. hippie Harry Stein." --Publishers Weekly
"When we last saw L. A. private eye Harry Stein...he was
tracking down stolen medical marijuana...in Stein, Stoned. Now
he's chasing after...bees. Think of Harry as a nicer but equally
harried and quick-witted version of Larry David, and you'll begin to
get an idea of how just how wacky this comic crime series really
is." --Booklist, February 2012
Hal Ackerman has been on the faculty of the UCLA School of
Theater, Film, and Television for the past twenty-four years and is
currently co-chair of the screenwriting program.
