Pay or play /
Gould, Howard Michael,
Pay or play / Howard Michael Gould. - First world edition. - 217 pages ; 23 cm. - A Charlie Waldo novel ; 3 . - Gould, Howard Michael. Charlie Waldo novel. .
"Paying a harsh self-imposed penance for a terrible misstep on a case, former LAPD superstar detective Charlie Waldo lives a life of punishing minimalism deep within the woods, making a near religion of his commitment to owning no more than One Hundred Things. At least, he's trying to. His PI girlfriend Lorena keeps drawing him back to civilization - even though every time he compromises on his principles, something goes wrong. And unfortunately for Waldo, all roads lead straight back to LA. When old adversary Don Q strongarms him into investigating the seemingly mundane death of a vagrant, Lorena agrees he can work under her PI license on one condition: he help with a high-maintenance celebrity client, wildly popular courtroom TV star Judge Ida Mudge, whose new mega-deal makes her a perfect target for blackmail. Reopening the coldest of cases, a decades-old fraternity death, Waldo begins to wonder if the judge is, in fact, a murderer - and if he'll stay alive long enough to find out."--Publisher.
9780727850850 0727850857
GBC1A9444 bnb
020256579 Uk
Waldo, Charlie (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
Ex-police officers--Fiction.
Extortion investigation--Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Pay or play / Howard Michael Gould. - First world edition. - 217 pages ; 23 cm. - A Charlie Waldo novel ; 3 . - Gould, Howard Michael. Charlie Waldo novel. .
"Paying a harsh self-imposed penance for a terrible misstep on a case, former LAPD superstar detective Charlie Waldo lives a life of punishing minimalism deep within the woods, making a near religion of his commitment to owning no more than One Hundred Things. At least, he's trying to. His PI girlfriend Lorena keeps drawing him back to civilization - even though every time he compromises on his principles, something goes wrong. And unfortunately for Waldo, all roads lead straight back to LA. When old adversary Don Q strongarms him into investigating the seemingly mundane death of a vagrant, Lorena agrees he can work under her PI license on one condition: he help with a high-maintenance celebrity client, wildly popular courtroom TV star Judge Ida Mudge, whose new mega-deal makes her a perfect target for blackmail. Reopening the coldest of cases, a decades-old fraternity death, Waldo begins to wonder if the judge is, in fact, a murderer - and if he'll stay alive long enough to find out."--Publisher.
9780727850850 0727850857
GBC1A9444 bnb
020256579 Uk
Waldo, Charlie (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
Ex-police officers--Fiction.
Extortion investigation--Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)