
Night Drop
The Pinx Video Mysteries
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Jack Meloche
It's 1992 and Los Angeles is burning.
Noah Valentine, the owner of Pinx Video in Silver Lake, notices the fires have taken their toll on fellow shopkeeper Guy Peterson's camera shop. After the riots end, he decides to stop by Guy’s to pick up his overdue videos, only to find Guy’s family dividing up his belongings. He died in the camera store fire, or did he?
Noah and his charmingly meddlesome downstairs neighbors begin to suspect something else might have happened to Guy Peterson. Something truly sinister.
The first in a new series from Lambda Award-winner Marshall Thornton, Night Drop strikes a lighter tone than the Boystown Mysteries, while bringing Silver Lake of the early 1990s to life.
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Mystery upon mystery upon mystery. Wow!
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Great
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In this first installment of the series, the reader is introduced to Noah. He is a man who has experienced tragedy and now just goes through the motions of life. After finding out Guy is dead and witnessing Guy's family's odd behavior, he starts to investigate the death himself. Noah is tenacious while looking for clues to what happened.
Noah has help in his investigation from Marc and Louis, his neighbors, and Leon, another acquaintance. They prove to be smart, capable and loyal friends. They also, at times, are the source of levity in the story. As secondary characters, they are well-drawn.
The story reminds me of a cozy mystery. There is a regular person who stumbles upon a mysterious death and using their brains and ingenuity, and sometimes naivete and carelessness, apprehend the culprit. It ticks all my mystery reading boxes.
The setting is great, The plot keeps the reader guessing. There are a few twists I didn't see ahead of time. The characterizations are top-notch. Jack Meloche does a brilliant narration. Overall, it's a winner by author Marshall Thornton.
I received a free review copy of this audiobook, at my request. I have written this voluntary review of it in exchange.
Highly recommended.
Accidental Death or Murder?
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Great start to an amazing series
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I love mystery series that have good characters and have a sense a humor (even in situations that are depressing) and this book delivers on both.
The author has a way with words and I really enjoyed the narrator as well.
The book does a good job setting the scene of early 90s LA and it is interesting hearing the reactions in the aftermath of the LA riots considering what has happened in 2020.
Can’t wait for the full series to hopefully be released on audio.
Loved it. Great early 90s mystery.
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For a few years now I’ve been hoping this book would be released into audio, and it seems I got my wish, and I couldn’t be happier – well, maybe if I had the other books loading on my phone, but that’s just me being greedy. Anyway, this series follows Noah Valentine in the early 90’s. In fact we first meet him during the tail end of the riots in 92. For the most part he leads a quiet life, managing his video store and hanging out with friends during evenings. It’s exactly what he needs. Until he just happens to stumble right into a murder mystery. A mystery he and his friends are determined to solve. Because why not?
I love the quiet pace of this series. I know when I first read it, I felt like it was slow-going. But that’s what makes it so great, it was a slower way of life, answers weren’t instant, there were no cell-phones, and address books and rewinding a movie after watching it was a thing. I loved the gossip time with Noah’s friends, they were quirky and a lot of fun and I think they kept the book from becoming too heavy.
Listening to this book now was a bit eerie – and a whole lot of scary. Eerie because what happened back then is happening right now, scary because in the last 30 years we haven’t come further in terms of racism and homophobia. This book is realistic in a way that few books are, well disregarding the whole amateur sleuth thing because that’s pure fun. But the rest of it is very real, and Thornton has a way with words that takes you back in time, experiencing it for yourself. So if you are looking for an escape from reality, this is not it. However it is a masterfully created work that deals with many difficult subjects. It touches you when you least expect it, it surprises you and makes you fall just a little bit in love.
This is my first experience with narrator Jack Meloche and while he might not be up there with my favourites he did a nice job narrating it, and I enjoyed listening to him. He had some minor differences in voices, but nothing too distinct or individual for the characters often melding together. But honestly it never bothered me much, I was too enraptured by the story unfolding and having a look around LA in ’92 to focus on the narration.
If you for some reason have missed this series, this is the time to remedy that. It’s just too good to miss out on.
A copy of this book was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review for Love Bytes.
So good!
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Bittersweet
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