Dream Town (Private Investigator Archer Book 3)

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With the help of Liberty and his PI partner Willie Dash, Archer will risk everything and leave no stone unturned in finding the missing Eleanor Lamb, and in bringing to justice killers who would love nothing better than to plant Archer six feet under. The narrator, soon established as Elliot Chase, then zooms out to address the reader directly, introducing the players—most importantly movie star Lana Farrar. The enjoyed reading this book but alas all his books and plots are pretty much main stream and would love if author would bring anything new to the table.

In total, David has published 48 novels for adults; all have been national and international bestsellers and several have been adapted for film and television. Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs. His backstory is always coming up, but it is the great character development that keeps the reader enthralled. Overall, “Dream Town” is an enjoyable journey back in time when things were different and America was recovering and rebuilding following the devastation of World War II, and unfortunately men and power ran the world.Baldacci has done this and more, churning out great novels in a variety of sub-genres, all of which are of the highest caliber. He connects his plot, characters, and style together like the lyrics of a good Eagles hit song that you just sing along with and get lost in the music. The 1950s weren’t the fabled good old days, but they’re fodder for gritty crime stories of high ideals and lowlifes, of longing and disappointment, and all the trouble a PI can handle.

Suffice it to say it is a page turner and I look forward to another Archer; Memory Man, Will Robby…all of the Baldacci characters. His books are published in over forty-five languages and in more than eighty countries, with 150 million copies sold worldwide. Highly recommended and no real need to read the earlier two books although it is probably more fun if you do.The book shines a light on the darker side of Hollywood and fame during that time period, particularly the studio contracts that used to bind actors to studios and dictate pretty much their whole life, which I've read about in other books and was pretty awful to women. Michaelides takes a literary turn in his latest novel, employing an unreliable narrator, the structure of classical drama, and a self-conscious eye to dismantling the locked-room mystery.