Amos Walker is an entertaining character. His dialogue, as a private detective, makes me want to place him somewhere between Mike Hammer and Groucho Marx. He’s a tough guy whose asides are made to entertain himself as well as his audience. In this case he finds that he has been hired by a famous Latina pop star, Gilia Christobal, to find a black-mailer who has stopped black-mailing her; an odd request but one that is explained as the story goes on. I found it to be an entertaining detective/mystery and one well worth reading. I wish I had. I have a difficult time getting into audio novels. The voices I hear in my head while reading novels are much richer that those coming from the mouths of actors reading them to me. This novel is set in Detroit and the observations and commentary is quite believable and realistic until the narrator begins to mispronounce place names. Amos lives in Hamtramck but he refers to it as “Hamtrack”? This is only one example but there are several others. Where was author Estleman when this recording was made?
