I had an ARC of Joe Ide's
The Goodbye Coast a while back. It's meant to be a re-imagined modern version of Chandler's Marlowe stories, and although I thought it might have been better not trying quite so hard to be a Marlowe reincarnation, and I thought it was a bit too long, it still somehow kept me reading. It's on sale in both the US ($2.99) and the UK (£0.99) right now.
Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096RS2G58
Kobo US:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-goodbye-coast
Kindle UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09BQNLTSJ
Spoiler:
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In this colorful reinvention of a classic, Philip Marlowe finds himself tangled in two missing persons cases; “Ide has chiseled off the rust while keeping the soul of one of American fiction’s icons.” (Dennis Lehane)
The seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandler’s detective, Philip Marlowe, is vividly re-imagined in present-day Los Angeles. Here is a city of scheming Malibu actresses, ruthless gang members, virulent inequality, and washed-out police. Acclaimed and award-winning novelist Joe Ide imagines a Marlowe very much of our time: he’s a quiet, lonely, and remarkably capable and confident private detective, though he lives beneath the shadow of his father, a once-decorated LAPD homicide detective, famous throughout the city, who’s given in to drink after the death of Marlowe’s mother.
Marlowe, against his better judgement, accepts two missing person cases, the first a daughter of a faded, tyrannical Hollywood starlet, and the second, a British child stolen from his mother by his father. At the center of The Goodbye Coast is Marlowe’s troubled and confounding relationship with his father, a son who despises yet respects his dad, and a dad who’s unable to hide his bitter disappointment with his grown boy.
Steeped in the richly detailed ethnic neighborhoods of modern LA, Ide’s The Goodbye Coast is a bold recreation that is viciously funny, ingeniously plotted, and surprisingly tender.
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