In Dream Town (Archer 3) by David Baldacci due out April 19, private eye Aloysius Archer heads to Los Angeles to visit with an actress friend to ring in 1953. Their celebration is interrupted when Liberty’s friend Eleanor Lamb stops by their table and hires Archer on the spot when she learns he is a private eye because she believes someone is trying to kill her.
Archer plans to meet
Lamb the next day to get a contract signed and a down payment for his services,
but Lamb is missing, and there is a dead body in her house. Even though his new
client is missing and there is no retainer fee, Archer takes on solving the
mystery of the dead man and the missing woman.
He soon finds himself
chasing all over Los Angeles along with a trip to Las Vegas as he tries to put
the clues together. Unfortunately, he comes across smugglers and a mob
executioner as the plot thickens, and Archer sifts the truth from the lies as
he chases one puzzle piece after another.
Typical of a Baldacci
thriller, the kernel of truth is hidden in a plot that is as twisted and furious
as a tornado. David Baldacci published his first novel,
Absolute Power, in 1996, and it became a popular movie starring Clint Eastwood.
Baldacci, a former lawyer, has published another 40+ novels for grownups since
Absolute Power.
A Virginia native, Baldacci and his wife Michelle co-founded
the Wish You Well Foundation that works to increase literacy in the United
States.
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