Coastside Detectives: The Grand View

De: Matthew F. O'Malley

Narrado por: David Angelo

The views of San Francisco, so well known from dozens of film noir tales and classic novels, are the backdrop to a tale rooted in the smart-bombed skyline of present-day Baghdad, with results in San Francisco just as deadly.

Detective Mike Mason now lives in Pacifica, a small coastal town just south of San Francisco, but is drawn back to the rough streets of the city's Tenderloin District by a new client named Laura Grandviewer, who is as beautiful as she is untrustworthy. Lies and half-truths send Mike upon a crooked path, and before he can unsnarl all of the loose ends, Laura has set waving in the criminal winds, a growing body count will work to unnerve this hardened detective and end in a climactic splash of blood.

The latest in a long line of West Coast private eyes, Mike Mason takes stock of the state of his soul, as he navigates the complexities of a criminal caper and finds clarity for both in the fog-scrubbed sky viewed from California's winding Highway One.

Matthew O'Malley is also the author of multiple award-winning short stories found within his Tales for Sale series. This is the first audiobook in the Coastside Detectives series.

©2010, 2015 Matthew O'Malley (P)2019 Matthew O'Malley

My hometown mystery

Knowing all the places mentioned made me feel right there with the story. It all was happening right here in my hometown .

good detective

a very well written book it was very enjoyable Mike was a very interesting character the narrator was good and overall it was a very good book
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review

Clients lie

hard-boiled, private-investigators, law-enforcement, art-theft, artifact, greed

Everybody lies. Especially the client. Joe takes the call but Mike takes the case using a part time nerd employee and a street girl for surveillance help. There's an art dealer who seems suspicious, an "importer" who has a somewhat derelict plane plus a boat as well as some interested law enforcement. Things get really busy after the first murder! Loved it!
Narrator David Angelo has the perfect delivery for this book!
I won this audiobook in a giveaway! :)

Loved it!

I wish this story was a series. I really loved the main characters and its nod to film noir.

Detective Mike Mason is Phillip Marlowe light but I enjoyed him. A lot of the story took place inside Mike's head, a la Marlowe, and the narrator does a decent job with the cadence. There is a dame with questionable ethics, a hardened old-timer, an over-worked police force and lots, and lots of mystery.

It really is too bad this story is not a series...

A clean private PI story

What I liked:

*The story was fun with twists and turns. It was not predictable.
*There were many surprises.
*The story reminded me of the old time detective stories I enjoyed (clean).
*The narrator brought the analytical, don't mess with me detective alive.

I was given a copy of this audiobook from the narrator at my request.