Dreamland Author:Newton Thornburg "Newton Thornburg is one of the best hidden secrets in the crime writing field, and his revival is much overdue."-Maxim JakubowskiTwo apparent suicides and a pair of brutal sex murders plunge would-be starlet Foxy Reno and ex-hippie drifter Crow into the dark underbelly of Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley. As Crow and Reno embark on a hunt ... more »for the killer, they discover the dark side of desire in this white-hot California thriller.Newton Thornburg was born in Illinois in 1929. Since 1973, he has been a full-time novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of ten novels including Knockover, To Die in California, Black Angus, and Cutter and Bone. He lives in Redmond, Washington.« less
Excellent author of Cutter and Bone suffers here with stereotyped lesbians; author finds the relationship he fashions between a beautiful jailbait-aged girl and the narrator to be cuter and funnier than it is.