Rhapsody in blood

the long version

"Benjamin Justice, a discredited former journalist, is at loose ends and between freelance jobs when he agrees to take a short trip with his close friend, Los Angeles Times reporter Alexandra Templeton. Together they drive to a faded resort hotel in a small, remote town known as Haunted Springs. Once a famous getaway for celebrities, in the 1950s it was the site of the violent death of Rebecca Fox, a Hollywood beauty, and the lynching of a local black man, Ed Jones, accused of her murder the last lynching in California."--Jacket.