Chasing The Dime
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By Michael Connelly, and and, Jonathan Davis
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Henry Pierce has a whole new life – new apartment, new telephone, new telephone number. But the first time he checks his messages, he discovers that someone had the number before him. The messages on his line are for a woman named Lilly, and she is in some kind of serious trouble. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly’s world, and it’s unlike any world he’s ever known. It is a night-time world of escort services, websites, sex, and secret identities. Pierce tumbles through a hole, abandoning his orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman he has never met.
Pierce’s skills as a computer entrepreneur allow him to trace Lilly’s last days with some precision. But every step into Lilly’s past takes him deeper into a web of inescapable intricacy – and a decision that could cost him everything he owns and holds dear.
Read by Jonathan Davis
(p) 2002 Hachette Audio
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A standalone novel. Harry Pierce is a scientist who has created a formula that could lead to a medical breakthrough. He lives an uneventful and orderly life although things could change if he can persuade a wealthy investor to commit funds to his research company. Recently single, Harry has moved into a new apartment with almost no furniture, but he does have a new telephone and a new telephone number. And that’s when things start to get interesting, because he’s soon picking up messages for a woman named Lilly, who had the telephone number before him and it sounds as if she’s in serious trouble. Harry finds that he can’t step aside and tries to track down Lilly to help her. The action happens over just a few days and the story is so witty and full of surprises I didn’t even try to work out what the solution to the mystery was as I was reading. I just couldn’t stop turning the pages!
Review by: Pink Alpaca, Oundle Crime
