Griffin Mills, a respected and successful adult film star who happens to be detective, helps a friend clear his name after his friend’s new Porsche is stolen from a party in the Hollywood Hills and found the next day on LA’s Westside with the mysterious corpse of a college coed slumped across the passenger seat. A fresh take on the LA mystery/suspense novel, Hard Up reads as if Janet Evanovich and Michael Crichton decided to go on a weekend bender with Dave Barry.