The Second Murderer by Denise Mina Hardback Book 9781787302853

Denise Mina is a oneofakind storyteller James PattersonquotThis is MarlowequotquotMr Philip Marlowequot She askedI glanced at the clock It was exactly eleven am as if she had been waiting by thephone for an appointed hour following someone elses orders to the letterquotWhat dyou think were a troupe of brothers There is only mequotIts midSeptember a heatwave has descended on the parched hills of LA and Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills Wealthy twentytwoyearold Chrissie Montgomery set to inherit an enormous fortune is missing Shes a walking target ripe for someone to get their claws into Her dying father along with his sultry bottle blonde girlfriend wants her found before that happens Theyve hired Anna Riorden Marlowes nemesis too The search takes them to the roughest neighbourhoods of LA through dive bars and Skid Row And thats before he finds the body at The Brody Hotel Who will get to her first Marlowe Anne or the men chasing her fortune And does she want to be foundDiscover the rest of the inimitable Philip Marlowe series nine classic Chandler adventures from The Big Sleep to The...