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The Goodbye Coast

A Philip Marlowe Novel

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The Goodbye Coast

By: Joe Ide
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
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Los Angeles—a city of scheming Malibu actresses, ruthless gang members, virulent inequality and washed-out police.

Roaming the city streets is Philip Marlowe: a quiet, lonely, remarkably capable private detective, living beneath the shadow of his father—a once-decorated LAPD homicide detective now drinking his life away.

Marlowe's latest client is tyrannical starlet Kendra James. Kendra's husband was fatally shot near their Malibu home, but even though that murder remains unresolved, the actress is more interested in tracking down her 17-year-old stepdaughter. But things get complicated after Marlowe lands a second missing person search from British academic Ren Stewart, whose ex-husband has kidnapped their seven-year-old son.

©2022 Joe Ide (P)2022 Weidenfeld & Nicolson Classics Crime Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Private Investigators Marriage Funny Disappearance Suspense

Critic reviews

"A Philip Marlowe who wears our twenty-first century like a well-cut suit." (Ian Rankin)

"A total gobsmacking original." (James Patterson)

"A blast from start to finish." (Dennis Lehane)
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shockingly bad narration, so awful it hides the Story, which might be good but I'll never know

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