Local resident and novelist Alice Zogg has released her newest novel, “No Curtain Call.”

When the curtain falls, the story begins…

Nick Fox, a retired sheriff’s department lieutenant, is trying to get his act together after nearly being blown up in a targeted explosion that cost him the loss of part of his leg and a kidney, resulting in his subsequent retirement.

Then a friend asks him to investigate the death of his son, who died from an opioid overdose at the end of a musical performance at Citadel High School three-and-a-half years earlier. His friend insists that his kid would never do drugs or commit suicide. Instead he suspects murder. Despite the trail being cold after the time lapse and a crisis within his own family, Fox cracks open the inactive case and takes another hard look. Can he finally raise the curtain on the killer?

Zogg was born and raised in Switzerland. She met her husband, a fellow Swiss, in New York City and the two made their home in the United States. The family relocated to Southern California in 1967. La Crescenta has been the author’s hometown for over 40 years. She is an avid traveler and plays racquetball and golf.