The Esmeralda Goodbye

Corey Lynn Fayman’s sixth novel, THE ESMERALDA GOODBYE, is set in circa 1955 Southern California and features idealistic rookie cop Jake Stirling, who is caught up in a web of intrigue and a rising body count filled with mobsters, gamblers, stars like Zsa Zsa Gabor, Lee Marvin, and the infamous J. Edgar Hoover. His missing father’s case notes from his own career complicate matters. Jake learns who he can and can’t trust, often at enormous personal cost. Weaving the famous (and infamous) characters with the fictional ones almost gives the novel a true crime flavor, and it doesn’t flinch from the social and political events of the era. The hardest challenge Jake faces is where to draw his own lines of ethics and duty as those around him bend theirs to suit themselves. THE ESMERALDA GOODBYE will please those readers who like history and movieland glamour mixed with their mysteries.