Title: Deadly Protection - Robert Crais - book
Summary :
LA, Hollywood Boulevard, in the middle of the night. Speeding along at 100 mph, twenty-two-year-old Larkin Conner Barkley has no time for red lights. Until the tragedy that will turn her life upside down: what the wealthy heiress sees that night, in the glow of her shattered headlights, spells the end of her fairy tale...
Having become an inconvenient witness in a case beyond her control, her life hangs by a thread. Her only guarantee of survival: Joe Pike, a former LAPD cop turned private eye who ensures her protection. The chase can begin. Warning: things are going to get out of hand...
"A very well-crafted thriller, written by a master of the genre." L'Expansion