Ed Gorman - Shadow Games

Synopsis:
The PI hero in this book is cut from Raymond Chandler cloth. He is the PI Knight Errant. 
The story opens in 1985 when the number one teen idol is found with an underaged girl in a 
very compromising situation. This is the last of a series of alcohol fueled missteps 
resulting in his incarceration in a mental hospital. Eventually, he is released and 
five years later it seems that he is finally getting his life back on track when he 
becomes the suspect in a grisly murder investigation.

The murderer isn't hard to figure if you pay attention while 
reading. The clue is there. But the real strenght of this book is 
the way it grabs you by the hair of the head and drags you 
through the amoral world of stars and starsuckers. The action 
never flags.