Last Dance

by Jeffrey Fleishman

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Pub Date Nov 10 2020 | Archive Date Jan 27 2021

Blackstone Publishing

Mystery & Thrillers

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Description

The US election has been hacked, and a Russian prima ballerina is found dead in her downtown loft. LA detective Sam Carver pieces together evidence in a cold war that never really thawed.

A famous Russian ballerina is found dead in a downtown LA loft. No marks, no bruises. The suspects are many: spies, hit men, a gunrunner, and one of Hollywood’s most powerful and mysterious film producers. Detective Sam Carver becomes entangled in a perilous reignited Cold War between Moscow and Washington. He chases leads from Europe to Africa.

But Carver faces other demons, too. He is haunted by Dylan Cross, a killer who got away a year earlier. She knows his secrets, whispers to him in his dreams. His obsession with Dylan threatens his new case and his relationship with Lily Hernandez, a uniform cop who wants to work as his partner.

Last Dance explores dangers within and without, and how we reconcile the damage, love, and things lost, in a Los Angeles that is as tempting and alluring as it is cruel and sinister.

The US election has been hacked, and a Russian prima ballerina is found dead in her downtown loft. LA detective Sam Carver pieces together evidence in a cold war that never really thawed.

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A Note From the Publisher

Jeffrey Fleishman is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and longtime foreign correspondent. He has had postings in Rome, Berlin, and Cairo and has covered wars in Iraq, Libya, and Kosovo. He is now Foreign and National editor for the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of the novels My Detective (the first Sam Carver book), Shadow Man, Promised Virgins: A Novel of Jihad, and most recently Last Dance.

Jeffrey Fleishman is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and longtime foreign correspondent. He has had postings in Rome, Berlin, and Cairo and has covered wars in Iraq, Libya, and Kosovo. He is now Foreign...

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A Note From the Publisher

Jeffrey Fleishman is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and longtime foreign correspondent. He has had postings in Rome, Berlin, and Cairo and has covered wars in Iraq, Libya, and Kosovo. He is now Foreign and National editor for the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of the novels My Detective (the first Sam Carver book), Shadow Man, Promised Virgins: A Novel of Jihad, and most recently Last Dance.

Advance Praise

“Carver is a complex, laconic, melancholy figure, and Fleishman…paints him in nuanced detail and lovely prose. Equally well evoked is the city itself. We’re deep in Raymond Chandler territory here, a land of mean streets and tarnished heroes.”

-Seattle Times

“[An] ambitious novel…Carver’s investigation offers flashes of noir-movie intrigue…[Readers] will find plenty to enjoy in the engaging plot.”

-Booklist

“[An] impressive sequel…A hard-boiled, world-weary hero in the classic tradition of Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer, Carver will also appeal to fans of Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch. Fleishman is on his way to becoming a master of contemporary LA noir.”

-Publishers Weekly

“The detective on the case, the LAPD’s Sam Carver, talks a great game, alternating between laconic dialogue and appealingly quotable reflections as he fights off his memories of Dylan Cross.”

-Kirkus Reviews

“Last Dance is a perfect mystery novel—you don’t know who is good and who is bad and maybe you never find out, just like in real life—and Fleishman’s Los Angeles is dark, brutal, and somehow still filled with moments of profound beauty: a song, a ballerina’s perfect line, a memory of better days. You’ll be taken away. And If something bad happens to me, I want Sam Carver on the case.”

-Tod Goldberg, New York Times bestselling author of Gangster Nation and Living Dead Girl

“Inside a story of murder, longing, and discovery, Jeffrey Fleishman has gracefully woven a story about American dreams, Cold War fears and the changing nature of noir’s most hallowed ground—Los Angeles.”

-Tom Rosenstiel, author of Oppo and Shining City

“Last Dance pulled me in and wouldn’t let go. The writing shines like broken glass. The story is fresh, sharp, and haunting.”

-Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award–winning author of The Dark Corners of the Night

“In this page-turning follow-up to My Detective, Jeffrey Fleishman again brings us his acute journalist’s eye, lyrical turn of phrase, and talent for creating vivid and believable characters. From the international world of ballet to the grit and gorgeousness of Los Angeles, the plot twists keep surprising to the very end.”

-Lindsay Marcott, author of The Producer’s Daughter and Mrs. Rochester’s Ghost