Red Desert, Clive Rosengren
Red Desert, Clive Rosengren
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Red Desert

Author: Clive Rosengren

Narrator: Clive Rosengren

Unabridged: 5 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/03/2015

Synopsis

Santa Ana winds and wildfires are plaguing Los Angeles, where Eddie Collins' acting career isn't exactly making him a household name. In fact, it's in danger of becoming a virtual rumor. To make ends meet, he runs his own PI business in the heart of Hollywood. When his A-list friend Mike Ford has his Oscar stolen during a home invasion, Eddie dons his private eye porkpie to find the source of cryptic, threatening letters that start showing up in Ford's mailbox.His investigation leads him to suspects and events surrounding the filming of a recent movie, Red Desert, which Ford directed and starred in. A rape was committed during the course of the shooting, and Eddie begins to believe that the wrong person may have been convicted of the crime.After the third letter arrives, Ford's six-year-old daughter is kidnapped. As Eddie races to resolve the case, a longtime friendship is tested, one that was forged against the backdrop of Hollywood, where friends and loyalties come and go like shifting sands.

About Clive Rosengren

Clive Rosengren is a former television and film actor who worked in Hollywood and who also had roles with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and in theaters across the US. He lives in southern Oregon.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sharon

Eddie Collins is my new favorite PI. He's as low-key as his office, but he knows how to solve crimes. A sometimes actor, Eddie nails the Hollywood scene with a keen wit and a sharp eye. His relationship with his secretary Mavis is reason enough to read Red Desert.......more

Goodreads review by Gay

P.I. Eddie Collins, who made his debut in the Private Eye Writers Shamus-nominated Murder Unscripted, is back in Hollywood where the author lived and acted for part of his forty-year career. This is important in the story because he (and his sleuth) knows his way around the movie biz. In the story,......more

Goodreads review by Carole T.

This Shamus Award-nominated novel blends the best of Hollywood Noir with the down-to-earth practicality and musings of a very appealing hero, actor-cum-private eye Eddie Collins. Love this low-tech, wise-cracking guy and his classic investigating of fringe Tinsel Town players who will stop at nothin......more

Goodreads review by Michael

Eddie finds out first hand what happens when old friends don't turn out to be what he thought when he knew them. One, a famous director now, hires Eddie to find who's sending him threatening letters. The other, an old army buddy now down on his luck is hired by Eddie to help with surveillance. Rathe......more

Goodreads review by Sharon

Eddie Collins is my new favorite PI. He's as low-key as his office, but he knows how to solve crimes. A sometimes actor, Eddie nails the Hollywood scene with a keen wit and a sharp eye. His relationship with his secretary Mavis is reason enough to read Red Desert.......more

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