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Title: Poison Blonde: An Amos Walker Novel by Loren D. Estleman ISBN: 0-7653-0447-3 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 19 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: It's Amos Walker...but less of him!
Comment: This is not the best Amos Walker by any means...very light plot, very apparent killer...but a "lesser" Amos Walker mystery is still miles above the best of most other authors. Buy it...you won't be sorry!
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Dialogue and Action in Thin Mystery
Comment: At his best, Loren D. Estleman reminds me of Raymond Chandler. At his weakest, his characters are engaging and rewarding. So even if you are not an Estleman fan, I suspect that you will enjoy Poison Blonde.
Poison Blonde belongs to Mr. Estleman's distinguished series featuring private detective, Amos Walker, who haunts the night in Detroit. His work is his life, and vice versa.
Poison Blonde brings him a job working for a hot young recording star, Ms. Gilia Cristobal. The young woman is not whom she seems, and the many ex-cons around her bring Walker onto his guard. One of them is a man he helped put away for life. The music industry scenes ring true, and could have come out of a tabloid. The Detroit color is, as always, solid and striking. The thugs are as stupid and gratuitously cruel as anyone would want.
The character of Gloria Cristobal is a particularly interesting one, and adds a lot to the story. She is one of Mr. Estleman's best characters in years.
The story is fast-paced and engrossing, and I found myself unable to put the book down until I had finished it.
Why did I grade the story down one star? There are mysteries here, but their explanations are the obvious ones that would occur to any reader in the first few seconds. Mr. Estleman does a pretty good job of making them seem more mysterious than they are by putting in lots of color, but at bottom there's not much here to exercise your mental processes.
After you finish enjoying this book, I suggest that you take the time to get to know someone better whom you think you know. Look for the depths behind the obvious social facade. Take what you find and use it to look deeper into the hearts of all those you meet.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amos Walker, Back in Form
Comment: As a huge fan of the Amos Walker private eye series, I am happy to report that "Poison Blonde" is a return to form after the previous book in the series "Sinister Heights" had been something of a letdown. At his best, author Loren Estleman is an elite hardboiled mystery writer. Since its first appearance with 1980's "Motor City Blue" the Walker series has been rivalled only by Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder series in term of quality hardboiled private eye writing.
This time out, Walker is hired by a susperstar female Latin singer with a very dark and sordid past. A onetime revolutionary in her home country, she fled to the U.S. under an assumed identity after being accused of murder. When the person whose identity she assumed turns up missing after blackmailing her, she hires Walker to find the blackmailer before her secret becomes public.
The plot draws Walker into web of intrigue, pitting him against his usual assortment of gangsters, cops and other assorted heavies. Though "Poison Blonde" breaks no new ground for the series, it is delivered with such fresh and inventive prose that it is a more than worthwhile read. Fans of hardboiled mysery novels owe it to themselves to get hooked on Amos.
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Title: Silent Thunder: An Amos Walker Mystery by Loren D. Estleman, Loren Estleman ISBN: 0743474805 Publisher: I Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Sinister Heights: An Amos Walker Novel by Loren D. Estleman ISBN: 0892967382 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Something Borrowed, Something Black: A Peter Macklin Novel by Loren D. Estleman ISBN: 081254546X Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Last Car to Elysian Fields: A Novel by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0743245423 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Sweet Women Lie : An Amos Walker Mystery by Loren D. Estleman ISBN: 0743479130 Publisher: I Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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