The Chesire Moon

by Robert Ferrigno

Book Overview

Quinn, a former investigative reporter who got burned by a source two years ago, teams up with sultry Jen Takamura to find a killer amidst the decadent streets of Hollywood. By the author of The Horse... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688103146
• ISBN13: 9780688103149
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Hip, glamor and sleaze

Brimming with Southern California hip, glamor and sleaze, Ferrigno's second novel (after "Horse Lattitudes") features burnt-out journalist and divorced father, Quinn, now working for SLAP magazine, the latest in tabloid slick. Quinn's old friend Andy, dealer in stolen gadgetry, stumbles on a murdered TV producer - and is in turn murdered. But Andy's apparent suicide allows police to close the case and Quinn is on his own. Well, almost. His sidekick, Jen Takamura, a sultry, mid-twenties, Japanese American photographer with green eyes, a fearless disposition and a corvette, sticks with him as they paw through the rubbish of Hollywood secrets, pursuing whispers of motive into the cushy enclaves of talk-show superstar Sissy Mizzell and her venerable husband, a Lorne Greene type with aspirations to be governor. The narrative segues from Quinn to the increasingly deranged murderer so the reader already knows who and almost why. This does not detract from the page-turner pace but it does require Ferrigno to come up with a bang-up twisty ending. He does not. And female readers may find themselves giggling over the exotic Jen who could not exist outside the rarified air of male fantasy.