Heart Attack and Vine
A Crush Mystery
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
"As slick as a switchblade with a pearl handle."—Lee Child, New York Times best-selling author
Los Angeles bodyguard/bouncer Caleb Rush (Crush) is back in this second Crush novel. When Rachel Fury, a con-artist friend who'd vanished for a couple of years after a big scam, reappears in Hollywood under a new name as a glitzy movie star, she hires Crush as a bodyguard, and he quickly gets drawn into a criminal mess that requires all his brawn, skill, and savvy to negotiate. It's rich with Hollywood lore, New Orleans charm, snappy dialogue, fast-paced action, and noir atmosphere.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in Hollywood, Sutton's terrific sequel to 2015's Crush finds Caleb "Crush" Rush working as a bodyguard and courier for Rachel Fury, "part-time actress, full-time grifter," in what turns out to be a con involving the letters of transit prop from Casablanca and an underworld figure. Three years later, Rachel reenters Crush's life as Rachel Strayhorn, an up-and-coming star nominated for an Oscar. She needs protection from a stalker during a birthday party for her current mark, director Adam Udell. Out at the pool at Adam's place, someone fires a shot, but is it at Adam or Rachel? Against his better judgment, Crush agrees to travel with Adam's movie-making circus to New Orleans, and this time, the shots that ring out in the night find their mark. The violence and sex mixed with the ongoing multiple cons give this something of an R-rated Scooby-Doo feel, while the multiplicity of suspects and red herrings is straight out of Agatha Christie. Calm, steady Crush makes a wonderful lead.
