The last songbird / Daniel Weizmann.
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TextSeries: Weizmann, Daniel. Pacific Coast highway mystery ; Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : Melville House Publishing, 2023Copyright date: ©2022Description: 330 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781685890308
- 168589030X
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A struggling songwriter and Lyft driver, Adam Zantz's life changes when he accepts a ride request in Malibu and 1970s music icon Annie Linden enters his dented VW Jetta. Bonding during that initial ride, the two quickly go off app - over the next three years, Adam becomes her exclusive driver and Annie listens to his music, encouraging Adam even as he finds himself driving more often than songwriting. Then, Annie disappears, and her body washes up under a pier. Left with a final, cryptic text - 'come to my arms' - a grieving Adam plays amateur detective, only to be charged as accomplice-after-the-fact. Desperate to clear his name and discover who killed the one person who believed in his music when no one else in his life did, Adam digs into Annie's past. As he drives the outskirts of Los Angeles in California, Adam comes to question how well he, or anyone else, knew Annie - if at all. The Last Songbird is a poignant novel about love, obsession, the price of fame and the burden of broken dreams, with a shifting, twisting plot that's full of unexpected turns.
"Meet Adam Addy Zantz - failed songwriter and Lyft driver, driving around Los Angeles at night with a song in his heart and his head in the clouds. Haunted by memories, Zantz lives behind the wheel, dreaming up lyrics as he drives strangers through the city maze. The one person giving him hope: his favorite rider, aging folk legend Annie Linden. But when Annie is found murdered and the police consider him a suspect, Zantz finds himself forced to play detective...even though he's about as hardboiled as scrambled eggs. Left with a final, cryptic text from Annie, and desperate to discover who killed the one person who believed in him, Zantz digs deep into Annie's past, driving the outskirts of LA, turning up sworn enemies and lovers, and shocking long-held secrets that make him question how well he, or anyone else, knew Annie - if at all." -- Back cover.