Dream Town by David Baldacci

Aloysius Archer is a PI.  He is an unusual PI as he has serious morals and scruples which patently interfere with accumulating money.   He accepts a case on new years eve from a Hollywood screenwriter.   She thinks someone is trying to kill her.

The story goes downhill from there.  Archer finds himself rubbing elbows with the rich and famous and some of those elbows are spiked.   The plot includes a sociopathic thug and a wealth of disgruntled women.  The women illustrate the second-class citizen nature of the early 1950s.   The women are talented, hard-working, and subject to the whims of the men that they ofter save from themselves.

The book had a good hard-nosed detective vibe.  The plot was intricate and included drugs, murder, lying, and cheating. good cops and bad cops.

I enjoyed the book and recommended.

 

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