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Title: Sinister Heights by Loren D. Estleman, John Kenneth ISBN: 1-58788-974-9 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Pub. Date: February, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 5 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Vengence
Comment: Being a huge noir detective fiction fan I found it a little difficult to muddle through this installment in the Amos Walker series. The plot starts out in typical fashion and then goes on to become Walker out for revenge, sort of like Walking Tall or something along those lines. The ending went back to a typical hard-boiled style of ending with the detective confronting the person behind the mayhem which was nice. Unfortunately this one just didnt do it for me. Estleman is definitly an accomplished author and all the other reviewers of this novel are right on target with most of their reviews but the revenge angle just didnt work for me.
Rating: 5
Summary: As great as Chandler
Comment: It's an overworked phrase to be sure but Loren Estleman really is 'the legitimate heir to Raymond Chandler'. And even that's an injustice because Estleman is no mere imitator. His voice is his own - tough, poignant, as gritty as the streets he writes about, and with a killer ear for dialogue.
The Amos Walker series has matured over sixteen novels from it's breezier, almost pulpish beginnings to one of the finest detective series in print. The sheer skill of his writing and his deftness of phrasing makes you gasp in wonder. I find myself constantly re-reading sentences just to savor them.
Other reviewers have gone into the plot of Sinister Heights in some detail so I won't bother repeating it. The real magic here is the writing. This may not be the best Walker novel (Never Street and Sugartown are possibly better) but then I can't think of a bad one either.
While other good PI writers have seen their glory days Estleman goes from strength to stregth with each new book. For those that still wish there were more Philip Marlowe novels, who've given up on Spenser and his clones or who just like the best in PI fiction available, don't go past Estleman and Walker.
And, as other reviewers have noted, his western novels bout Marshall Page Murdock are well worth picking up too. They're really PI novels of the old west. Or his Sherlock Holmes pastiches. Hell, anything the man writes.
Have I made my point? Don't miss Estleman. He's the real deal.
Rating: 5
Summary: A very durable private eye
Comment: After fifteen episodes, Loren Estleman's tough private investigator Amos Walker is still a very unpredictable and interesting character. He has the mind of a scholar, the fists of a prizefighter, the wit of a comedian, and the heart of a Saint. You never know just what he might do but you're sure that it will be the right thing.
Sinister Heights takes us to the world of billionaires who built their fortunes on the backs of American labor. Leland Stutch, the last remaining pioneer of Detroit's auto industry and over a century old, just died leaving his vast fortune in the hands of his very young widow.
Rayellen Stutch has hired Walker to trace the illegitimate offspring of her late husband so that she can settle any claims against the estate before they become a legal issue. It should be a simple assignment, handled in a day or two and then forgotten.
But things get complicated in a hurry when Walker discovers that Stutch's illegitimate daughter now has a son of her own and is on the run from an abusive husband. The closer the detective gets to heirs, the more dangerous his mission becomes.
It is soon obvious to Walker that someone would rather kill him than let him discover the truth. A high speed encounter on an Interstate Highway results in the death of an old friend of Walkers and the abduction of Leland Stutch's young grandson. Circumstances force Walker to make a bold and unique move to rescue the young boy and uncover the identity of the killer.
I won't reveal any more of the plot but I highly recommend this novel. It's characters are lifelike, the dialog clever and fresh, and the story is told with Estleman's magic use of the language. It seems like the terms, Noir and Hard-Boiled were created to describe a story like this.
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Title: Poison Blonde: An Amos Walker Novel by Loren D. Estleman ISBN: 0765304473 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 19 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Smile On the Face of the Tiger by Loren D. Estleman ISBN: 0446678171 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Something Borrowed, Something Black: A Peter Macklin Novel by Loren D. Estleman ISBN: 081254546X Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Hours of the Virgin by Loren D. Estleman ISBN: 0446608688 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Midnight Man by Loren D. Estleman ISBN: 074340002X Publisher: I Books Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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