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The Wheel of Doll

By: Jonathan Ames
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The eponymous and hapless detective Happy Doll returns with a new philosophy and a new case in this second instalment of the series.

Although badly scarred and down to his last kidney after the previous caper, Happy Doll is back in business. When a beguiling young woman turns up at his door, it's Doll's past that comes knocking. Mary DeAngelo is searching for her estranged mother, Ines Candle—a singular and troubled woman Doll once loved. The last he'd seen her she'd been near-death: arms slit like envelopes. Although she survived the episode, she vanished shortly thereafter. Now, years later, Mary claims Ines is alive and has recently made contact—messaging her on Facebook and calling her from a burner phone—only to disappear once again. Although his psychoanalyst would discourage it, Doll takes the case, desperate to see Ines again. But as the investigation deepens, there are questions he can't shake. What's led the flighty Ines to reappear? Is Mary only relaying half the truth? And who is Mary's strange and mysterious husband?

In this wholly original follow-up to A Man Named Doll, Happy travels through L.A., Washington, Oregon and back again—a journey that gets wilder and woolier with each turn. An irreverent and inventive mystery, The Wheel of Doll is not to be missed.

©2022 Jonathan Ames (P)2022 Mulholland Books
Crime Fiction Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Mystery Private Investigators Thriller & Suspense Thriller Crime Witty Suspense

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Very good edgy story in an old school private investigator style.
Recommended if you like Jonathan Ames books.

Great noir thriller

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Taken together with the first novel in the series Happy has now been shot, stabbed, beaten multiple times and lost a kidney. If this novel is ever filmed most of the budget will be spent on bandages.

we're going to need to more bandages

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