Dream Town by Lee Goldberg
Sophia Rose is here with the fifth Eve Ronin crime thriller, Dream Town, by Lee Godberg. Come to Hidden Hills, a gated community in LA where Eve Ronin is dealing with murder in this gritty police procedural.
Dream Town
by Lee Goldberg
Series: Eve Ronin #5
Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella
Length: 8 hours and 47 minutes
Genres: Crime Fiction
Source: Publisher
Purchase*: Amazon | Audible *affiliate
Rating:
Narration: 4.5 cups Speed: 1.2x
A gated dream town for the megarich becomes a murderous nightmare in a riveting Eve Ronin thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.
Hidden Hills is a private celebrity enclave of white picket fences and horse trails that seems to exist in a dreamworld. But when reality superstar Kitty Winslow is killed within their gates and corpses are found in the vast state park outside them, LASD detective Eve Ronin realizes there is a deadly, razor-thin line between what’s real and what’s imagined.
Eve discovers that Kitty’s surreal on- and off-camera life, a blur of fact and fantasy, shockingly mirrors her own as she struggles to investigate the killings, wade into a music industry war, and battle a vicious Chilean gang—all while her life is being turned into a fictional cop show directed by her estranged father.
Eve’s grip on reality and the case is strained to the breaking point as the slayings continue, the media frenzy reaches a fever pitch, and the only inescapable truth she can see is death…and it’s coming for her.
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Sophia Rose’s Review
A gritty and colorful police procedural set in LA’s Lala Land of reality TV and traveling Chilean burglary gangs with Lee Goldberg’s Eve Ronin on the case.
I was familiar with Lee Goldberg’s works for a few years now, but not until last year’s sensational new release of standalone sci-fi thriller, Calico, did I try his work. I was most impressed to I reached for this year’s new release, the fifth installment in the Eve Ronin series. Granted, I took a chance that I could slip into the story without having read the earlier books. I can see where I would have perhaps enjoyed Dream Town more if I’d have gotten the book in order. Eve’s past career, her family situation, and even some ongoing personal and relationship development all point back to previous books.
That said, I had no trouble slipping into Eve Ronin’s world of police work and figuring out how to survive the work politics and lethal situations her job brings let alone navigating the odd world her parents created with a show based on her life filming presently and the crazy rarified world of a wealthy gated community where her Kardashian-like reality TV star victim was murdered. I found the addition of the field of bodies discovered in a nearby park and connected with Chilean travel gangs a scary yet fascinating additional case for Eve and her older more phlegmatic partner, Duncan. The find of the bodies brings in her would-be boyfriend, Daniel, the pathologist, is involved in. Eve’s still not sold on the relationship or Daniel living with her.
So, Eve has a lot of balls in the air, but she’s tough and smart. She gets it done. I figured some of it out and how things connected, but nothing close to the final solution.
Nicole Zanzarella was a new to me narrator. I had no trouble settling into her storytelling and I thought she made a good Eve and skillfully voiced the rest of the characters well. She caught the pace and tone of the story and made a good story even stronger.
All in all, the writing and description of setting into a celebrity and wealthy world I had little conception of was as solid and engaging as ever. I will be going back for the beginning of the series and following Eve to this point. Those who enjoy police procedural thrillers in the larger than life world of LA policing should definitely give this a go.
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