Product Description
In the latest Jack Liffey novel, L.A.'s most famous child-finder finds himself enmeshed in a race-fueled turf war on the Palos Verdes peninsula. Barely recovered after nearly loosing his daughter to religious fanatics in what could only be termed a "witch-hunt" in Bakersfield (The Devils of Bakesfield, 2008), Jack is hired to find another girl, Blue, the missing teenage daughter of his ex-wife's best friend. The investigation leads him to discover an intense turf war on L.A.'s posh Palos Verdes peninsula. The Bayboys, rich teenage surfers, routinely vandalize cars and terrorize outsiders to enforce a strict locals-only policy for their own Lunada Bay. They have also started terrorizing the Mexican day laborers who camp in the ravines between the mansions where they work as gardeners and houseboys.
When one stubborn Mexican boy decides that he wants to learn to surf the waves of Lunada Bay, the feud turns violent, drawing in arsonists, angry bikers, racist border vigilantes, and Jack's daughter Maeve, who once again puts herself at risk to help her father.
My thoughts
I have never heard of the Jack Liffey series and therefore never read one before. Was I afraid that “Palos Verdes Blue”, the eleventh book in the series would confuse me? Yes. Did it? No. Jack Liffey is a detective specializing in finding missing children and he takes on the case of a missing daughter of a friend of his ex-wife. In this novel we deal with illegal immigrants, the different social classes and the surfing community. California got it all. What Liffey doesn’t realize is that his daughter Maeve is helping him. All this makes for some exhilarating drama. John Shannon can certainly write a compelling mystery.
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