P.I. FLYNN, FOLLOWING A LONG-VANISHED TRAIL. APPROACHING A LETHAL MIRAGEA young graduate. A nobody. Vanished in his gap year. His family want him found.But why are people with knives, guns and Lamborghinis closing in?
It's two years since college graduate Chas Abbott walked out of his family home to take time out and find direction. Two years since he's been seen. Now his family fear the worst.P.I. Eddie Flynn is good at finding people, even those who don't want to be found. But this boy is proving elusive. His trail has melted away with the fading memories of acquaintances and strangers who barely recall his passing.But it's not the end of the road.Because Flynn has attracted onlookers who are watching his search twenty-four hours a day. People ready to step out of the shadows with bats and guns.All over an itinerant boy of interest to nobody.And if Chas Abbott is a shadow, the watchers are all too real when they finally move in to dissuade Flynn from continuing his fruitless quest.
[19 Jan 2024] Another really good mystery in the Eddie Flynn series. Eddie is asked to find a young man who has been missing for two years, with very few clues available. Not long after his investigation starts, things get weird, with representatives from two disparate groups -- an apparent Albanian crime syndicate and a multi-billion dollar business -- trying to disrupt or follow his search. And he can't find any reason for either of those groups to be interested in the missing kid.
Eddie is an admirable PI. Mostly nonviolent. But independent and impossible to intimidate. And always creative.
The plot is good. Suspenseful and sad. Ending with two pretty big surprises.