The Lying Spiral: Truth Is The Sudden Stop
Updated: 12 hours ago
The Lying Spiral is a gritty PI mystery, and people keep picturing a staircase. Cute. A staircase goes somewhere. This is a lie that keeps going.
Meet Eli Gentry
Elias Gentry (Eli, if you’ve ever bought him a drink) spent eight years as an Edge City cop before the work finished with him. Now he’s a private investigator with a bad knee, a drinking problem, and a cigarette habit. A wealthy real-estate family hires him to find Josie Lemongello, a missing young woman. Simple. She’s gone, they have money, and a man with a limp is trying to run before the meter expires.
The Lying Spiral, Explained
In a normal book, that ends with a confession, a bruised jaw, and the detective staring at the rain. In Edge City, the first answer breeds a second lie. Then the liar hires security. Next thing you know, you’re following the trail across the border to a resort in Mexico, wondering which drink came with a warning. A cover-up has to keep eating. One omission needs another. One paid silence needs a bigger check. The family doesn’t need a mastermind. It needs a good lawyer.
No Hall Monitors
I don’t write detectives who break the rules and then apologize. You know the type: he roughs up one guy, gets a speech from a woman, and ends up at the bottom of a bottle. Eli doesn’t salute. His knee won’t allow it. He drinks. He makes bad decisions. He gets hit, shot at, and lied to by people who went to schools where they major in lying. He keeps going because sitting still means agreeing with them.
If you want a detective who asks permission, the bookstore has a whole wall of them. Eli Gentry solves enough of the case to make enemies and bills the lesson to someone else.
The Lying Spiral. The audiobook is narrated by the same idiot who wrote it.
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