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City of Sand
- Narrated by: Jennifer D. Ledford
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Summary
It's the year 2000 and the Silicon Valley city of Sunnyview is abuzz with the possibilities of vast fortunes to be made in the Dot Com boom. But to retired cop Benjamin Stone, who has come to Sunnyview to find his estranged daughter, Jessica, the promise of Sunnyview rings hollow.
Benjamin grew up in Sunnyview in the 1950s, when it was a sleepy farming town, and he finds its modern day counterpart strange and weirdly insubstantial. After Jessica turns up dead in a creek bed, apparently murdered, Benjamin follows clues that suggest a conspiracy involving a startup company and a Silicon Valley pioneer with a disturbing past.
As the mystery unravels, Benjamin must confront the reality of terrible crimes that occurred in the idealized town of his youth, which helped to make Silicon Valley what it is today. But as Benjamin attempts to unravel the conspiracy, all the clues begin to point toward a horrifying possibility: Sunnyview isn't what it seems.
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- Kevin Boone
- 08-08-20
Simply outstanding
I bought this on the strength of Kroese's supernatural comedies and, to be fair, I wasn't expecting this book to be as good. I was wrong -- it's better. This is not only the best of Kroese's writing -- and that's a high bar in itself -- it's one of the best books I've read in a long time.
This is a story about things not being what they seem. Having a female narrator telling a story from the point of view of a middle-aged cop adds a certain weirdness to proceedings, but it seems to make sense by the end. As much sense as anything does, anyway. There are elements of Kafka, Lovecraft, and Chandler, mashed together in an entirely plausible way.
It's pretty much impossible to describe the story without giving the whole plot away, so I won't even try. It's started to figure out what was going on by about half-way into the book, but the ending still came as a surprise.
My only regret is that, because the story relies so heavily on its unexpected conclusion, there's probably no reason to read it more than once. Which is a shame.
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