Onward to 1952 Hollywood, this third instalment of the Aloysius Archer adventures in Dream Town is by David Baldacci. This sets Archer on a path to find the killer, and Lamb, and pits him against dangerous LA gangs, mobsters in Vegas, and the seedy side of Hollywood. It was a town that took every single dream you had and then merrily ran it right through the world's biggest meat grinder.

Although I found it to be not as good as the two first books in this series it still captivates and has lots of fun chapters. Another great story … But it’s the last in the series of Aloysius but the scene is set for his next adventure. Whilst visiting her home to collect his fee and have the contract signed, he stumbles across a dead body before being knocked out. The investigation takes him from mob-ridden Las Vegas to glamorous Hollywood to the darkest corners of Los Angeles—a city where beautiful faces belong to cutthroat schemers, cops can be more corrupt than criminals .Archer remains down to earth and ready to impress, asking the right questions and yet always finding ways to get into just enough trouble to prove worrisome. I hope Baldacci will continue this series since I have alway been a fan of the hardboiled and noir detective genres and we need more books set in a time that is not the present. This is another example of that versatility, as he pens a story that is pulled right out of the gumshoe era, which differs greatly from many of his other series. When he does, Eleanor is nowhere to be found, but there’s a body in the house, leaving Archer to wonder if she might have been responsible. Not wanting to answer a lot of a questions by the police he phones in a tip and heads to the beach to wait until the cops are finished with the crime scene.

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. In total, David has published 49 novels for adults; all have been national and international bestsellers, and several have been adapted for film and television. S. Geological Survey, leading to “immediate suspension of the National Volcano Early Warning System,” and there’s always someone around looking to monetize the natural disaster and the sasquatch-y onslaught that follows. Baldacci has done this and more, churning out great novels in a variety of sub-genres, all of which are of the highest caliber.His backstory is always coming up, but it is the great character development that keeps the reader enthralled. From an inauspicious start back in books one, One Good Deed, it’s clear he is a man who is on the right side of the law, even if his background might beg to differ. He’s a man of integrity and principal, and if you have him in your corner you can consider yourself a very lucky person. The darkness that all the glitz, glamour and picture perfect seafront and hillside properties manage to mask.