Chris Morgan (4)

Ash Heap of History by Chris Morgan

This book is set in the early 1980’s with a hippy-dippy private eye heroine who is more interested in smoking dope than almost anything else. How she gets anything accomplished is part of the mystery of this book – at least to me. There are hundreds of references to foods, TV programs, movies, music, life in Southern California living near a beach and the culture of the time. I actually lived near Santa Monica and would have been about Blondie’s age at the time this story takes place so much of what was written was part and parcel of my past. I never got into the drug scene but was on the fringes a few times. That said…this story took time to get into, is told in first person present tense from Blondie’s perspective, meandered about a bit and finally toward the end the missing girl case she was working on manages to be wrapped up neatly. I do wonder what will happen to Blondie and her friends and whether or not this PI will go on to solve other cases, find true love or make something of her life OR just live among the ashes of her marijuana stubs. This is a different book and one that probably will not appeal to every reader but if you are interested in that time period and want to read a bit about it and the culture Blondie lived in then this book might be of interest to you.

Thank you to the author for the ARC – This is my honest review.

3-4 Stars – I liked it
5 Stars for accuracy to time period… (altro)