No More Illusions

<p>Dylan Blake a rookie cop at age 40 promoted to detective finds his vacation interrupted when the Chief of Police asks him to take a look at an accident scene along the Pacific Coast Highway near Big Sur.</p><p>Part-mystery part-romance part suspense. . .a story that twists like the Pacific Coast Highway from Big Sur to Northern California and across the mountains to Utah featuring a likeable detective his independent twice-divorced girlfriend and a murder. </p><p>The cast of characters includes a successful business woman a treacherous ex-husband a billionaire brother a kid from Compton an aging Mafioso yearning for a good fight a small-town police chief and a shaggy mutt of a dog appropriately named Watson.</p><p>Kirkus Reviews (America's premier and oldest book reviewer) describes the book as Accomplished ambitious crime fiction...a multilayered tale that has shades of California noir à la Chinatown. 5 STARS Best Books from IndieReader. ...Written in the style of Elmore Leonard says the San Francisco Book Review.</p><p>There are no cardboard characters or stereotypes no serial killers pure sociopaths gang members or terrorists. And that in and of itself distinguishes this novel from most of what's out there these days. Perhaps surprisingly and despite what you might suppose given the subject matter the story has a positive noir vibe--it's the antithesis of bleak and cynical and it's a seriously layered good read. You won't be disappointed. </p><p> </p>