A review by missyjohnson
Dream Town by David Baldacci

4.0

New Year’s Eve 1952, PI Aloysius Archer is in LA to see his friend and aspiring actress Liberty Callahan. While they attend a Hollywood party, a friend of Liberty’s stops by their table and wants to hire Archer because she is afraid that someone is trying to kill her. The next day the woman, Ellie Lamb, is missing and Archer finds a dead man in her house. Mr. Baldacci did a great job of making this 1950’s old Hollywood, film noir style book work. It had the feel of old movies, with a few historical things thrown in and some good humor. I especially enjoyed the asides about fearing to drink a White Russian because of the cold war and Joe McCarthy. I had never read this character series before and found it fun to listen to. The narration was well done and there were female voice actors for the female parts. This made the story more enjoyable for me because I was not distracted by a male trying to do female voices and make so many female characters have different inflections and styles. I only found the last few chapters to drag a bit as the story was tied up.