The Esmeralda Goodbye

De: Corey Lynn Fayman

Narrado por: Maria McCann

1955. In the sleepy seaside town of La Jolla, CA, rookie cop Jake Stirling saves the life of infamous crime writer Raymond Chandler, earning the respect of his hard-nosed captain, Wade Lennox, who served with Jake’s father, a police detective whose suicide two years earlier shocked the town and shattered Jake's family.

Jake gets called to the Hotel Del Charro, a luxury hideaway for the rich and famous. Budding starlet Zsa Zsa Gabor’s diamond necklace has been stolen. She and other hotel guests—FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, political wheeler-dealer Artie Corcoran, and mob boss Meyer Lansky press their own cryptic agendas, while Raymond Chandler provokes outrage with drunken allegations of police corruption. When a local hoodlum is murdered Captain Lennox takes Jake into his confidence, demanding loyalty.

More killings follow as Jake finds himself caught up in a conspiracy that could change the course of American history. Can he clear his father's name and save those he loves from the cold-blooded brutality of desperate and powerful men?

©2024 Corey Lynn Fayman (P)2024 Konstellation Press

pretty Solid

I read a lot of crime fiction and this holds up pretty well. a bit corny in places and it seems to really hit you over the head with the celebrity characters. I can't tell if the ending was super predictable from really early on or if I've just been ruined by too many crime books.

nothing

too much dialogue for me. too slow apace. lot of he said she said. etc