HARLAN COBEN calls it "One of my all-time favorite series! ...David
Handler is so good at writing one smart, funny page-turner after another
that he makes it look easy."
Fans of JANET EVANOVICH and CARL HIAASEN, get ready. If you haven't
yet discovered wisecracking sleuth Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag and his
faithful basset hound Lulu, you're in for a sharp, hilarious treat.
Once upon a time, Hoagy had it all: a hugely successful debut novel, a
gorgeous celebrity wife, the glamorous world of New York City at his
feet. These days, he scrapes by as a celebrity ghostwriter. A celebrity
ghostwriter who finds himself investigating murders more often than he'd
like.
And once upon a time, Richard Aintree was the most famous writer in
America -- high school students across the country read his one and only
novel, a modern classic on par with The Catcher in the Rye. But after
his wife's death, Richard went into mourning... and then into hiding. No
one has heard from him in twenty years.
Until now. Richard Aintree -- or someone pretending to be Richard
Aintree -- has at last reached out to his two estranged daughters.
Monette is a lifestyle queen à la Martha Stewart whose empire is
crumbling; and once upon a time, Reggie was the love of Hoagy's life.
Both sisters have received mysterious typewritten letters from their
father.
Hoagy is already on the case, having been hired to ghostwrite a tell-all
book about the troubled Aintree family. But no sooner does he set up
shop in the pool house of Monette's Los Angeles mansion than murder
strikes. With Lulu at his side -- or more often cowering in his shadow
-- it's up to Hoagy to unravel the mystery, catch the killer, and pour
himself that perfect single-malt Scotch... before it's too late.
