3.5
Sinister Heights
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Leland Stutch was building automobiles before Henry Ford ever dreamed up the Model T. He dominated Detroit for most of the 20th century as the auto industry soared and then began its long, slow descent. When Stutch's widow contacts Amos Walker, the private eye expects to meet a doddering old lady. Instead he encounters Rayellen, a 30-something beauty with washboard abs and 1 of the most unusual propositions he's ever heard.
Unconcerned with matrimonial vows, the most powerful man in Detroit left mistresses—and love children—all over Michigan. To stave off any future paternity suits, Rayellen hires Walker to locate Stutch's illegitimate offspring and pay them off—a seemingly simple task that draws the detective into a dysfunctional family's war zone and a violent case of kidnapping and murder.
is the 15th book in the Amos Walker Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
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3.5
“After a break in my Amos Walker reading--longer than anyone should be comfortable with--Sinister Heights was a great episode in the case files of the first private detective I know of capable of diagraming sentences while getting his head bounced off walls by union lackeys and illegitimate children alike to pick up with.
Walker is old school and has the cheap Scotch and quick, sarcastic comebacks to prove it; but the work that comes by a private detective as the Motor City crawls into the 21st century is dwindling. If it wasn't for the sins and vicious legacies of men like Leland Stutch, who built the automotive industry, he might be out of work altogether.
This may be Estleman's fifteenth Amos Walker book, and while he may be bringing back old characters, kicking off new and old one's alike, his love of Detroit, Walker's sarcasm, and the gritty, no-nonsense rendering of a flawed world and its struggling characters, are as strong as ever.”
About Loren Estleman
Loren D. Estleman (b. 1952) has written over sixty-five novels. His most enduring character, Amos Walker, made his first appearance in 1980's
, and the hardboiled Detroit private eye has been featured in twenty books since. Estleman has also won praise for his adventure novels set in the Old West, receiving awards for many of his stand-alone westerns. In 1993 Estleman married Deborah Morgan, a fellow mystery author. He lives and works in Michigan.
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