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"Ranks
with the work of Sue Grafton and Marcia Muller in
presenting a tough, savvy heroine…Complex,
suspenseful, socially conscious and riveting…It
emanates eroticism and sensuality. Put it at the
top of your spring reading list."
–The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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| Dogtown |
 Whitney
Logan, attorney-at-law, can count her billable
hours on one hand, and with the rent two months
overdue, she’s desperate for work. So
when Monica Fullbright, an expensively dressed
L.A. “housewife” turns up at her
office needing a lawyer to track down her
housemaid Carmen Luzano, an illegal alien,
and offers a thousand-dollar retainer, Whitney
doesn’t balk at playing sleuth at Immigration
Services. After all, no one survives in L.A.
just by being what they claim to be: even
the guy who cleans your pool is an actor,
she tells herself. And she can’t afford
to be an exception.
But it’s soon clear
that the missing woman might be anybody—anybody,
that is, except Monica Fullbright’s
housekeeper. And Monica herself is one of
the reasons L.A. is famous for great acting:
turns out she’s hardly the upper-middle-class
mother her tasteful clothing, accessories,
and classy job references imply.
Determined to discover
the truth, Whitney and her adopted sidekick
and Spanish translator, Lupe, a chicana
prostitute who struts her stuff under Whitney’s
office window, track her client’s
missing person to an old building on the
edge of the seedy garment district. But
they discover they’ve bitten off more
than they can chew, because just where they
expected to meet Carmen herself, they stumble
instead upon the woman’s dead body.
Whitney and Lupe follow
a trail of latin lovers turned political
activists, makeup artists turned drug smugglers,
and actress/models gone wrong to Case Guatemala,
the headquarters for a grassroots movement
for Central American political struggles.
There they’ll uncover the mystery
behind Monica Fullbright’s quest,
one that will put her life on the line—as
well as the lives of Whitney and Lupe themselves.
Mercedes Lambert’s
first mystery marks the exciting debut of
the energetic, streetwise duo of the smart,
blond Whitney Logan and her inimitable sexy
sister-in-arms, Lupe, in a story of drugs,
danger, and dog-eat-dog politics in a merciless
city—in Dogtown, where being someone
else isn’t vanity, it’s a necessity.
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"Who
says an entertaining, charming, unpretentious
detective story can’t be…an
authentic agent of social change? Without
ever making a big deal of it, the author
takes on dozens of issues that define our
weird metropolis… Dogtown
is an excellent, fresh, indigenous thriller."
–Carolyn See in The Los Angeles
Times
"Except
for the bikini panties, that could be Raymond
Chandler writing in 1939. The author is
actually Mercedes Lambert…Lambert
is part of a new generation of L.A. authors
who are changing the face of American mystery
writing" –Los Angeles
Magazine
"Mercedes
Lambert follows the grand tradition of the
mystery novel by carefully constructing
her complex and challenging story line.
But Lambert gives us something more—and
challenging and complex relationship between
her two sidekicks. As in a good buddy picture,
it’s this relationship that makes
the reader eager for sequel after sequel
after sequel." –Wilson
Library Bulletin,
"Dogtown
is a crackerjack novel with insight into
the human condition. Lambert’s star
should shine brighter and brighter for years
to come." –John Lutz
"Ranks
with the work of Sue Grafton and Marcia
Muller in presenting a tough, savvy heroine…Complex,
suspenseful, socially conscious and riveting…It
emanates eroticism and sensuality. Put it
at the top of your spring reading list."
–The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Lambert
debuts with a fast, colorful suspense tale:
a savvy tour through L.A.’s gritty
streets with two likable sleuths…engaging
entertainment." –Kirkus
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"Whitney
Logan is rough, tough, and likable."
–Chicago Tribune
"The
cultural friction between Whitney and Lupe
sustains this lively…adventure through
the seamy environs of East L.A." –The
New York Times Book Review
"…a
hard-boiled detective novel that can go
toe to toe with the best of them. The plot
is devious with tangled trails, that will
keep the most serious mystery fans from
differentiating between the bad guys and
the worse ones…Fans of hard-boiled
detectives will certainly be looking for
one [a sequel] as Whitney Logan continues
to venture through the streets of Dogtown."
–Mostly Murder |
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