More Than You Know

Myers (Come Sundown) aims to shock with a character dying of autoerotic asphyxia and then tries to tug at the heartstrings by tossing a lost baby into the plot--yet readers probably won't be taken in by the author's bait. The story opens as Nicole Loring finds her brother, Jay, dead after what is rumored to be a sexual romp the night before. Discovering that Jay's son may have disappeared from the apartment the night his father died raises her suspicions, but the police seem determined to write off Jay's death as accidental. With the help of Detective Roman McKenna, Nicole uncovers her brother's dark side, which involved blackmail and kinky sex, and learns more about sexual dysfunction than most readers will want to know. Disjointed scenes and tacky dialogue (Nicole shuns Roman's early romantic advances by saying, ""You don't touch me again. I've already been fucked by the police"") make it even harder to get through a tale that ultimately goes nowhere. (May)