The Perpetual Summer
A Chuck Restic Mystery
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Publisher Description
A missing teenage girl leads LA corporate HR exec-turned-private eye Chuck Restic to a high profile fight over a new art museum and a forty-year-old murder that won’t stay in the past. Anyone could be behind the teenager’s disappearance: her fitness-obsessed mom, switchblade-toting chauffeur, personal life coach, or even the girl herself. This is the second book in the Chuck Restic mystery series.
Adam Walker Phillips is a Los Angeles-based executive at a global financial services company who has endured countless PowerPoint decks, offsite visioning sessions, and synergistically minded cross-functional teams, all for the sake of his Chuck Restic mystery series. Phillips holds an MFA in film from Columbia University, and was also the winner of New Line Cinema’s development award for his film, Bibles.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Phillips's entertaining second Chuck Restic mystery (after 2017's The Silent Second), Carl Valenti, who doesn't trust private investigators, hires the L.A. HR exec to look for his missing 16-year-old granddaughter, Jeannette. Valenti has caused Chuck trouble in the past, but, postdivorce, Chuck could use the extra cash. As he starts to dig, with Valenti's right-hand man, stone-faced Hector Hermosillo, in tow, what at first seems the case of a rebellious teen acting out starts to look more serious. Chuck must also contend with Jeannette's parents, who are separated and have their own agendas involving Valenti's vast wealth. Chuck's sharp, wry insights into the absurdity of the corporate world reveal his existential need for more meaning in his life, and many scenes are genuinely funny, such as the one in which Chuck and Hector pose as building inspectors, riffing off each other with ease and breaking the ice between them. Phillips's clever blend of the absurd and the serious will have readers looking forward to Chuck's next adventure.
