Last Dance

The Sam Carver Series

By: Jeffrey Fleishman

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

A famous Russian ballerina lies dead in a downtown loft. No marks, no bruises. The suspects are many: spies, hit men, a gunrunner, and one of Hollywood's most powerful and mysterious film producers. Detective Sam Carver becomes entangled in a perilous reignited Cold War between Moscow and Washington. He chases leads from Europe to Africa.

But Carver faces other demons, too. He is haunted by Dylan Cross, a killer who got away a year earlier. She knows his secrets, whispers to him in his dreams. His obsession with Dylan threatens his new case and his relationship with Lily Hernandez, a uniform cop who wants to work as his partner.

Last Dance explores dangers within and without, and how we reconcile the damage, love, and things lost, in a Los Angeles that is as tempting and alluring as it is cruel and sinister.

©2020 Jeffrey Fleishman (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

loved it

I'm very invested in this writer/artist. I look forward for the next book. & the voice actor (Richard Ferrone) is wonderful.

political commentary

If I wanted political commentary in my fiction, I would watch the news on TV.

Too much political hate.

The story line is decent but sounds a lot like a Lucas Davenport novel. Porsche driving detective in a big city. A lot of name dropping of celebrities as well. Overall, I enjoyed the book but was turned off by the Trump hate speech. Wouldn't have liked that kind of talk about any political figure. Just wasn't necessary and didn't add to the story.

Meh 🤷🏻‍♂️

Overall the story had a good plot but the repetitive political rants were distracting and irrelevant to the story. I understand that a writer’s personal opinions and beliefs are naturally going to be interwoven into anything they create but in this particular book it felt awkwardly forced into the storyline and a bit excessive. Seemed at times that the author was trying to be more of a political commentator than a storyteller.

Excellent story

I loved the characters and the interactions. Well done.
I could have done without all the liberal bs with the elections. Now we know absolutely that it was all made up by liberals and pushed down our throats by our letter corps (fbi, cia, nsa, etc). Plus the flagrant squashing of our first amendment with our government using a third party to silence the majority of people in the US. Move on and grow up.