Gold Coast

Name: Gold Coast
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Elmore Leonard
ISBN: 9780061993732

Author: Elmore Leonard

Narrator: Frank Muller

Unabridged: 6 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 08/17/2010

Categories: Fiction, Crime, Western

Synopsis

“Lean, mean, darkly funny.”
—Boston Globe “A zingy thriller by the master of hard-boiled suspense.”
—Dallas Morning News“Elmore Leonard may be the greatest crime novelist in the world,” declares the Seattle Times, and truer words have never been written. Just follow the Grand Master of mystery and suspense to Florida’s Gold Coast and you’ll quickly discover that it’s so. In this classic Elmore Leonard thriller, a beautiful mafia widow stands to lose everything her late mob boss husband left her if she succumbs to her desire for an attractive Detroit ex-con—so the two conspire to outwit the thugs the dead capo assigned to make sure she stays chaste. Superior crime fiction in the vein of John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker—chock full of the eccentric characters, black humor, and razor-sharp dialogue for which the acclaimed creator of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (of TV’s Justified) is justifiably famous—Gold Coast is gold standard Leonard.

About Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard wrote more than forty books during his long career, including the bestsellers Raylan, Tishomingo Blues, Be Cool, Get Shorty, and Rum Punch, as well as the acclaimed collection When the Women Come Out to Dance, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty and Out of Sight. The short story “Fire in the Hole,” and three books, including Raylan, were the basis for the FX hit show Justified. Leonard received the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN USA and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He died in 2013.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James

Published in 1980, Gold Coast is another great early crime novel from Elmore Leonard. At the heart of the story is a forty-four-year-old woman named Karen DeCilia who, several years earlier, made the mistake of marrying a mobster. She's living a live of apparent luxury on Florida's Gold Coast, but i......more

Goodreads review by Tom

This is quite an old, neglected Elmore Leonard thriller but absolutely one of my faves of the 15 or so I've read by him. As always, the dialogue crackles with authentic life and the intricate plot comes together nicely. And there's a right nasty bastard to hate through it all. Top class crime writin......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

I like the idea of this book, the strong, no BS woman that knows the reality that surrounds her. She’s cold in her assessments and actions but still has a warm side in her moments of escape. Couple this personality with the pet male character who becomes trapped by his own need for acceptance and fe......more