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    Retro: An Amos Walker Novel
    Retro: An Amos Walker Novel
    Retro: An Amos Walker Novel
    Audiobook7 hours

    Retro: An Amos Walker Novel

    Written by Loren D. Estleman

    Narrated by Mel Foster

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    About this audiobook

    As a detective on the mean streets of Detroit, Amos Walker has to make friends in low places. It's part of the job. So when the incredibly successful madam Beryl Garnet needs somebody to fulfill her last dying wish, she turns to Walker. She hasn't seen her son in a long, long time, and wants him to have her ashes when she's gone just to let him know she hasn't forgotten about him. Walker obliges her.

    Walker finds Garnet's son, Delwayne, a Vietnam War protestor who has been living in Canada since the 1960s, and hands over his mother's ashes. When Walker returns to Detroit, he is surprised to learn that Delwayne is dead and he, Walker, is the prime suspect.

    To clear his name, Walker must find the murderer. In the process he discovers another murder, of a prizefighter from the 1940s...Curtis Smallwood, Delwayne's father. Walker knows he has his work cut out for him when he discovers that the two murders, fifty-three years apart, were committed with the very same gun. And even more puzzling, at the time of Delwayne's murder, the gun was in the limbo of airport security, inaccessible, to say the least.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781543612172
    Retro: An Amos Walker Novel
    Author

    Loren D. Estleman

    Loren D. Estleman is the author of more than eighty novels, including the Amos Walker, Page Murdock, and Peter Macklin series. The winner of four Shamus Awards, five Spur Awards, and three Western Heritage Awards, he lives in Central Michigan with his wife, author Deborah Morgan.

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      First reviewed at Blogcritics at I was at the library and I saw a copy of "Retro", the newest book in Loren D. Estleman's series of Amos Walker novels. I hadn't read any of the other novels, and I am always on the lookout for a new series. I am glad I didn't pay for it. I can't say if this is weaker work by an otherwise capable writer, or an average story within a modest series. If you have invested time in following this character in other stories, you will enjoy this book, but otherwise you could spend your reading time on many better books.In this story, Amos Walker is hired by an elderly retired madam to find her adopted son, who had fled to Canada in the 60's after being involved in a Black Panther style bombing plot that had misfired. The story then spins into the adopted son's lineage, and the death of that man's real father - a promising boxer - gunned down in an unsolved murder in the early 50's.The better points of the book (and perhaps the series) include Estleman's sense of place and his descriptions of Detroit and his description of minor characters. He also works in some stories about the popularity of boxing in the early days of television and the racial politics of Hollywood in the 1940's and 50's. He has a good sense of sense of pace and suspense, and his story moves along smoothly.Unfortunately the central serial character Amos Walker, a middle-aged private investigator in Detroit, is a windbag given to twisted metaphors and gumshoe philosophizing. It was so over the top that I wondered if Estleman was writing a parody. The plot is convoluted and the murder's identity and motivation are a flight of fantasy.Estleman's research on some issues is off. He has Walker travelling to Toronto to interview the fugitive who complains about Canada's "General Services Tax". A moment of research would have told Estleman that the 7 percent federal Goods and Services Tax is only one of two annoying Sales Taxes that most Canadians pay, and that his character could also complain about the 8 percent Ontario Retail Sales Tax.The dialogue is uneven. There are some good scenes but there is a lot of unrealistic pulpish dialogue.I have heard that Estleman writes better in the Western genre than the mystery genre, and I get the impression that Amos Walker sells steadily and pays the bills.