HOLIDAY FOR CRIME By Brogan Sinclair

"In Palm Springs, nothing and everything is a mirage."

Beneath the blinding sun of Palm Springs lies a darker truth—one the California desert has kept hidden for decades.

From the 1930s through the 1970s, Palm Springs was more than a glamorous playground for Hollywood royalty. It was a refuge for mobsters, fixers, and men who knew how to disappear without leaving footprints in the sand. While movie stars sipped cocktails by shimmering pools, organized crime figures convened in the shadows.

HOLIDAY FOR CRIME plunges readers headlong into this compellingly seductive and dangerous era, where luxury and lawlessness were indistinguishable, where myth blurred into murder, and where truth was the rarest commodity of all.

Rooted in real places and real people—but deliberately distorted through a cinematic noir lens—Holiday for Crime reimagines Palm Springs as a gorgeous mirage, masking corruption, betrayal, and violence. The past here is unreliable, warped by memory and secrecy, and every revelation comes at a cost. This is not nostalgia. This is excavation.

So, pour yourself a drink.

Dim the lights.

Step into a world where crimes are invisible, secrets burn hotter than the desert sun, and every shadow hides a story that refuses to die.