Angel Eyes by Loren D. Estleman
Open Road Media (ebook), 2011, first published in 1981
313 Pages
Amazon (UK)
I borrowed this ebook from my library and read it on my Kobo.
BLURB
When a client disappears before she can give him his assignment, Detroit PI Amos Walker must hunt down a woman he barely knows. After a tour in Vietnam and several years working the streets of Detroit as a private investigator, Amos Walker has seen a lot. But he’s never encountered anything quite like his newest assignment. Ann Maringer, an aging stripper hard at work at one of the city’s many low-grade joints, hires him to find a missing person: herself. She expects to disappear any day now, she says, and she wants to be found. He goes to her apartment the next day, hoping for more information, but Ann was true to her word and has disappeared completely, leaving behind nothing but a carton of Bel-Airs and a dead man on the floor. Unshaken by the body or the circumstances, Walker sets out to find his client. After all, she paid in advance. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
OPENING SENTENCE
First line: The Crescent was a cellar place on Cass, established before Michigan outlawed public dining and drinking below ground level.
REVIEW
I chose to read this for the ‘a book that came out the year you were born’ category of my Popsugar Reading Challenge 2015. choose the book because I struggled to find a copy of every book I wanted to read for this category so when this was available at my library I nabbed it. I had no idea what it was about.
Angel Eyes was okay but nothing special. Estleman offers a readable but quite run of the mill hardboiled detective novel that reminded me a lot of The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. I enjoyed Chandler’s novel a lot more. The writing is solid but the events of the novel get a bit over-the-top with bodies popping up all over the place and wise-cracks that fell a little flat. Angel Eyes was really dated and hasn’t aged well. I like crime fiction but this justdidn’t work for me. It was just okay. It’s not the worst book I’ve read but is far from the best.
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