Angelino Heights

When Dalton Everest a naive school teacher with a crackerjack free-form way of expressing himself forms a fast friendship with Nathan Lyme a charmer whos cagey about his employment everything Dalton knew of his previous life is swiftly upended. Set up by Nathan to fall hard for Melanee a frequently drunk French girl and former purse snatcher Dalton ends up in a pickle and then paranoid out of his wits is ultimately chased through the streets of downtown L.A. Angelino Heights is a crime novel obsessed with Los Angeles. It traipses across the city from a crooked pawn shop in Cudahy to a secretive mecca of modernism protruding from a hill in Pasadena to the old timey dive and themed bars where its protagonists drink up the atmosphere of old L.A.