It's August 1962. Marilyn Monroe is dead from an apparent overdose. The Kennedy Administration accuses Russia of installing missiles in Cuba. In a suburb south of Chicago, a ghost-like female figure is chased by a car on a hot, rain-soaked night. Private detective Jack Lamont sees the intended victim narrowly escape death while he is driving back to Guido's Bar & Grill. He rescues the woman and takes her to his room above Guido's joint. The woman doesn't know her name, where she lives, or what happened to her. She has no money except for a stash of wet, bloodstained bills hidden in her dress. Lamont's search for clues to her identity and the person who tried to kill her leads him on a trail of blackmail and murder in one of his most challenging cases since leaving the Forest Heights Police Department. "Lola" is author Charles Loebbaka's third Jack Lamont mystery. He also is the author of two novels that take place in France during World War II-"Love and Death in Paris" and "Paris Orphan: Escape from Evil."