Cinnamon Girl
A Pacific Coast Highway Mystery
On behalf of: Kathy Robbins - The Robbins Office, Inc.
One part Raymond Chandler, one part Ziggy Stardust, Cinnamon Girl is an indelible, moving portrait of Los Angeles, an incisive exploration of nostalgia and the weight of the past, and a suspenseful tale of greed, lust, betrayal, and the hidden price of teenage
yearning.
Lyft driver-turned-sleuth Adam Zantz is struggling to make ends meet when his beloved former piano teacher makes a deathbed request: to prove his son’s innocence in a decades-earlier murder case. Investigation leads Adam to stumble onto a recording of a high school garage band lost to the tides of the acid-fueled early ’80s music scene in Los Angeles. Down the psychedelic rabbit hole he falls, searching for the former band members. When one of them is slain before Adam’s eyes, he must act fast to catch the killer, tracing the band’s journey from the middle-class garage to the precipice of fame—a twisted tale marked by crooked DJs, elder-scammers, wellness hucksters, a teen cult, and the woman who held the key to the band’s triumph and ruin.
Reviews
“A Macdonaldesque web of failed Hollywood dreams, lurid parental betrayals and lingering adolescent disappointments. With all of its nods at noir PI models, who were often more tender toward their characters than their reputations would sometimes suggest, this is from start to finish a surprisingly gentle, almost innocent novel, and all the better for it.”—Irish Times
“Evocative, nostalgic, haunting, twisty, and true, Weizmann’s fast paced and smartly written Cinnamon Girl is everything there is to love about a classic PI novel and more … much more.”— Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times bestselling author of Sleepless City
“Cinnamon Girl is a musical joyride through the strange and deadly cul de sacs of Los Angeles. This book is effortlessly cool, delightfully weird, and wholly satisfying. I’d go anywhere with Weizmann at the wheel.”—Nina Simon, bestselling author of Mother-Daughter Murder Night
“Weizmann’s Cinnamon Girl is intense, satisfying, and a great read.”—Joe Ide, author of IQ
“This breezy neo-noir whizzes by like a familiar old song.”—Publishers Weekly
“Evocative, nostalgic, haunting, twisty, and true, Weizmann’s fast paced and smartly written Cinnamon Girl is everything there is to love about a classic PI novel and more … much more.”—Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times bestselling author of Sleepless City
“The weight of the past permeates Cinnamon Girl. As Weizmann’s living at the margins detective searches for truths long buried, a Southland is revealed in the harsh glare of the flamed out and velvet-frocked lyrics. A rockin’ good read.”—Gary Phillips, author of Ash Dark as Night