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Lambert's powerful third Whitney Logan novel (after 1996's Soultownand 1991's Dogtown) concludes the story of the troubled Los Angeles attorney. Having scrambled for years to get her career off the ground, Logan, thwarted by drink and depression, becomes the court-appointed lawyer for Tony Red Wolf, recently arrested on misdemeanor charges. Logan finds him surly and attractive, and soon has him out on bail. That evening he calls her to a meeting place where he shows her the butchered body of one of his female friends, claiming to have nothing to do with the murder. Unsure whether to believe him, Logan delves into the little-examined subculture of Native Americans living in Los Angeles while slipping ever further into her own dark world of personal demons. With its memorable characters, sharp dialogue and ever-increasing mood of uncertainty, fear and menace, the narrative builds to a startling and fantastical conclusion. Lambert was the pseudonym of Douglas Anne Munson (1948-2003), whose tragic story her literary executor describes in an afterword. Michael Connelly provides an appreciative introduction. (Aug.)Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information
Ghosttown
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- Publisher: Stark House Press
- Publication date: 08/07/2014
- Sold by: Smashwords
- Format: eBook
- Sales rank: 305,146
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The third and final Whitney Logan Mystery concludes the story of the troubled Los Angeles attorney and her friend Lupe Ramos, ex-hooker turned sleuth. Investigating a murder involving an American Indian client, this time Whitney and Lupe are drawn into a mystery where the edges of reality became increasingly uncertain. "Ghosttown is a noir masterpiece. One of the most evocative L.A. crime novels ever written."--Jonathan Kellerman.
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L.A. public defender Whitney Logan (Dogtownand Soultown) is called in to help Tony Red Wolf out of a drunk and disorderly charge, which soon turns into a charge of murder. To exonerate her client, Whitney gets caught up in the little-known world of the Native Americans who moved to Los Angeles for a better life. Lambert, whose real name was Douglas Anne Munson, died in 2003.—Jo Ann Vicarel
Kirkus Reviews
A final go-round for scrappy subsistence-level L.A. lawyer Whitney Logan and her ex-prostitute secretary Lupe Ramos (Soultown, 1996, etc.). When you're scrabbling for every dollar the court system is handing out, you can't afford to be choosy about your clients, and there's not much to recommend Tony Red Wolf, who's been picked up in an alley and accused of fighting Ernie Little Horse in a battle of honor over Ernie's cousin Shirley Yellowbird. Well aware that her client doesn't like her any more than she likes him, Whitney succeeds in springing him from the lockup anyway. Long past midnight, awakened by Tony's barely intelligible phone call, she runs out to the San Gabriel Mission, where she finds him standing guard over Shirley's dismembered corpse. Of course he didn't kill her, he sniffs; he was summoned to the scene by a prophetic vision. It's the first of many indications that Lambert, who died in 2003 after her publisher had rejected this last novel, has a healthy disrespect for the genre's rules. Readers caught off guard by the mystical ending should remember that when Whitney asks Tony much earlier what he's doing back on the street after his second arrest, he replies that he changed into a cockroach to escape the LAPD, then into a hawk to fly away. Michael Connelly's foreword and the biographical afterword by Lambert's friend Lucas Crown make it clear that her last testament is haunted in more ways than one.