I Don't Like Where This Is Going
Book #2 of the Wylie 'Coyote' Melville series
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- 49,00 kr
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- 49,00 kr
Publisher Description
Wylie 'Coyote' Melville - burnt-out professional therapist and hobbyist forensic consultant - needs a break. South Florida might be home, but it's also home to bad memories and local gangsters bearing grudges. So Wylie and his ace poker-playing best friend Bay Lettique head to the tawdry glitz of Las Vegas to lie low for a while.
But when Wylie and Bay see a woman fall from the balcony of her hotel on the Strip, their low-profile Vegas vacation soon turns into a murder investigation. With the powers-that-be keen to cover up all trace of the woman's death, Wylie starts to follow a trail that leads him across the vast and lawless deserts of redneck Nevada and deep into the heart of a human trafficking conspiracy.
A crime caper filled with Dufresne's trademark black humour, I Don't Like Where This is Going continues the story of Wylie's haphazard investigations into America's bankrupt political system, where power and influence are on sale and the corrupt prey on the innocent.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dufresne's droll second novel featuring Wylie "Coyote" Melville (after 2013's No Regrets, Coyote) finds the psychological therapist and amateur detective in Las Vegas, Nev., where he has traveled with his friend and sometime crime-solving partner, Bay Lettique, a professional poker player and magician, to escape mobsters in their native south Florida. Melville and Lettique are enjoying cocktails one afternoon in the atrium of the Luxor Hotel when medical researcher Layla Davis falls to her death in front of them. After the local authorities cover up her death, Melville discovers that Davis came from Memphis to rescue her sister, who has descended into prostitution and drug addiction. In his quest for answers, Melville runs up against an assortment of gangsters, lowlifes, and nutcases seemingly indigenous to Vegas. Dufresne's mix of hard-boiled action and a great deal of bleak humor makes for a potent and compelling brew.
