Imagine a murder mystery that involves one of rock ’n’ roll's greatest artists.

Spring, 1972: it’s the darkest moment of the Vietnam War, with demonstrations across the country. New York City is sliding toward bankruptcy. It’s been nearly two years since the Beatles broke up; John Lennon and Yoko Ono have just established themselves as New York residents and artists. John’s Imagine album hit the charts late the previous year, and he continues to record, but his and Yoko’s newest passion is film: Joko Films, at an undisclosed location in SoHo, opens its doors. There, on the eve of the Watergate break-in, one of Joko’s employees is brutally murdered, and the hunt for the killer, amid a storm of publicity, is on. Conceived and written by Dean Thompson, an original Joko employee, Imagine Murder is the first book in a series, based on the little-publicized New York City world of John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the 1970s.