Sept 12, 23. Good read ( )

Synopsis: 'It's the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan's: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits.
After a series of increasingly chilling events - mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloody knife left in her sink - Eleanor fears that her life is in danger, and she wants to hire Archer to look into the matter. Archer suspects that Eleanor knows ore than she's saying but before he can officially take on her case, a dead body turns up inside of Eleanor's house...and Eleanor herself disappears.
Missing client or not, Archer is dead set on finding both the murderer and Eleanor. With the help of Callahan and his partner Willie Dash, he launches an investigation that will take him from mob-ridden Las Vegas to the glamorous world of Hollywood to the darkest corners of Los Angeles - a city in which beautiful faces are attached to cutthroat schemers, where the cops can be more corrupt than the criminals...and where the powerful people responsible for his client's disappearance ill kill without a moment's hesitation if they catch Archer on their trail.' From the dust jacket

Review: This took forever to read. There were lots of characters to keep track of, and all of them could have been 'the bad guy'. The ending wasn't particularly satisfying, but it was expected.

Dream Town is a well researched book. It takes place in Hollywood, California and Las Vegas in the 1950s. The locations were all real and well described. There was some super human rescues. The reader can guess who the bad guys are but probably won't guess properly which is the good part about the book. Four stars were awarded to this book. It is a good story. ( )

The story follow the same fantastic writing by David Baldacci. With the twist and turn, the book has a lot of surprise and I really enjoy the story line. ( )

Nice novel very noir would have liked a bit more depth in the noir however good reading and enjoyed the lead character. ( )