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Private investigator and World War II veteran Aloysius Archer heads to Los Angeles, the city where dreams are made and shattered, and is ensnared in a lethal case in this latest thriller in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci’s Nero Award-winning series.
It’s the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan’s: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits.
After a series of increasingly chilling events—mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloody knife left in her sink—Eleanor fears that her life is in danger, and she wants to hire Archer to look into the matter. Archer suspects that Eleanor knows more than she’s saying, but before he can officially take on her case, a dead body turns up inside of Eleanor’s home . . . and Eleanor herself disappears.
Missing client or not, Archer is dead set on finding both the murderer and Eleanor. With the help of Callahan and his partner Willie Dash, he launches an investigation that will take him from mob-ridden Las Vegas to the glamorous world of Hollywood to the darkest corners of Los Angeles—a city in which beautiful faces are attached to cutthroat schemers, where the cops can be more corrupt than the criminals . . . and where the powerful people responsible for his client’s disappearance will kill without a moment’s hesitation if they catch Archer on their trail.
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“Narrator Edoardo Ballerini’s confident, masculine voice is well suited to narrate this 1950s murder whodunit…Brittany Pressley delivers the dialogue of all the female characters…An enjoyable listen for noir fans.”
— AudioFile
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“After a few pages you will feel as if you have time-traveled back to that era.”
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"A whodunit with a complex plot and characters…Baldacci’s take on Hollywood in the fifties is quite refreshing and a great part of this mystery novel’s charm."
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“Baldacci paints a vivid picture of the not-so-distant era…Well-done crime fiction. Baldacci nails the noir."
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review) -
“Solid prose nicely evokes the traditional hard-boiled whodunit."
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“In the Archer series, [Baldacci] proves to be a natural at handling the postwar setting.”
— Booklist -
One of [Baldacci's] finest books. Great character, great story, great portrait of an era.
— Bill Clinton (praise for One Good Deed) -
David Baldacci is one of the all-time best thriller authors.
— Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author -
A master storyteller.
— People -
Baldacci delivers, every time!
— Lisa Scottoline, New York Times bestselling author -
David Baldacci is a master storyteller.
— Associated Press
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A #1 New York Times bestseller
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A #1 Amazon bestseller
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A New York Times Bestseller in Audio
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A Wall Street Journal bestseller
Dream Town Listener Reviews
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Kreg Gauss, 8/31/2023
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Don Snyder, 8/14/2022
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Tim Stenson, 7/30/2022
About David Baldacci
David Baldacci is one of the world’s favorite storytellers and a global bestselling author, with twenty-one of his novels making the #1 spot on the New York Times bestsellers list. In 2011 he was inducted into the International Crime Writing Hall of Fame. His books are published in over forty-five languages and in more than eighty countries, with 150 million copies sold worldwide. His works have been adapted for both feature film and television. He is also the cofounder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America.
About the Narrators
Brittany Pressley has won several Earphones Awards as well as the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration in 2018. She has recorded over one hundred titles and has received several nominations for American Library Association’s annual list of Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults. She is also an accomplished singer-songwriter and voice actress. Her voice can be heard on national and international TV and radio commercials as well as several animated series and video games. She is a graduate of Columbia University.
Edoardo Ballerini, an American actor, director, film producer, and multiaward–winning narrator. He has won several Audie Awards for best narration, including for 2019’s Best Male Narrator of the Year. He was named by Booklist as winner of their 2023 Voice of Choice Award, and was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 2019. He has narrated over two hundred audiobooks, from classics to modern masters, from bestsellers to the inspirational, from Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners to spine-tingling series, and much more. In television and film, he is best known for his roles in A Murder at the End of the World, The Sopranos, 24, I Shot Andy Warhol, Dinner Rush, and Romeo Must Die. He is also trained in theater and continues to do much work on stage.