Resurrection Diva [Paperback]

Eva Batonne (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 7, 2008

Joan Lambert is living the LA dream turned nightmare. A dead rich girl, nine missing women, a stray dog and a missing ten-year-old boy are interlaced in her high-profile Hollywood case. Her own demons include a raging, stalking ex, her dark past and a career as an elite homicide investigator that's balancing on a high-wire in the circus spotlight of the movie and music industry. If it weren't for her partner, Gus VanChek, a movie buff and psuedo-enlightened life coach, she'd be a goner. In this very unlikely scenario, love appears in the form of curly-haired Italian surfer/environmentalist who shows up at an S and M club during an undercover investigation.

Then Joan is taken hostage on a ride on the highway to hell with the most brutal of female villains that, ironically, delivers a clue that could break the case.

This action-packed noir-ish Hollywood tale reveals the true color of fear and the horror of ego gone bad.

Product Details

• Paperback: 332 pages
• Publisher: Zumaya Enigma (May 7, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934135682
• ISBN-13: 978-1934135686
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,474,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Curl up with a delicious mystery, January 26, 2009

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Peggy Tibbetts (Silt, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Resurrection Diva (Paperback)

What's not to love about curling up with a hard-boiled detective crime novel? Well get comfortable. Eva Batonne's "Resurrection Diva" does not disappoint.

LA Detective Joan Lambert is in the middle of investigating the young starlet, Autumn Riley's murder when everything goes haywire. Autumn turns up on the streets of LA and she's very much alive. Case solved? Not so fast. The landscape is littered with loose ends. Like the messy videotaped murder of Autumn's best friend Dani. There's Pancho the dog who's found at Autumn's home. But Pancho belongs to a missing boy named Tommy, whose disappearance is linked to a whole slew of missing persons.

Lambert's investigation begins with Autumn's boyfriend, the big shot Hollywood producer Glenn Addams. When she follows him to a private club she discovers his connections to a cast of bizarre characters like druggies Dewey and the Barb, the dangerous Taylor twins, mystery man Coastal Eddy, and creepy Hector.

Haunted by her own checkered past, Lambert is drawn into the mind-bending twists and turns of a dark underworld. In the process she unwittingly pulls back the thin veil that separates Hollywood's lofty heights of glitzy glamour from the gutters of porn and snuff films.

Gripping suspense, intriguing plot, and unforgettable characters make this delicious mystery one you'll devour in one sitting.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Resurrection Diva, August 10, 2008

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Ron Schroder (Missouri, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Resurrection Diva (Paperback)

Eva Batonne's "Resurrection Diva" is a powerful, suspense driven novel. Her main character, Detective Joan Lambert, is gutsy, tough, and straightforward. The parade of characters Ms. Batonne presents is colorful and gives the reader a glimpse into Hollywood sleaze, with a dash of voodoo thrown in. It's a great read and impossible to put down. Ron Schroder

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MICHAEL CONNELLY FOR RESURRECTION DIVA, August 3, 2008

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Eva Batonne "Police Procedural Author" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Resurrection Diva (Paperback)

Starting with Michael Connelly, here's some feedback from great writers who have done work that I respect.

"I think there is a strong new voice in crime fiction and it comes from Eva Batonne. I really liked RESURRECTION DIVA. Batonne knows the secret, that the best crime novels are not only about how a cop works on a case, but how a case works on a cop. Detective Joan Lambert is a refreshing new character and I'd like to see more." Michael Connelly

"With a body that disappears from the morgue, a rash of missing children, a sadistic movie producer, and a driven police investigator hanging on by no more than a thread - Eva Batonne's RESURRECTION DIVA, casts a bright light on L.A.'s dark side, where blind ambition rules and beauty is no more than skin deep. An absolute page-turner. KRIS NERI, AUTHOR OF THE AGATHA, ANTHONY AND MACAVITY AWARD-NOMINATED TRACY EATON MYSTERY SERIES.

"Eva Batonne writes with the deft precision of that instant when the physical body is cold and still and the soul stands frozen on the threshold between this world and beyond. Her medical research is bang on." Dr. Deborah Ackerman, Pharmacology, Public Health, UCLA

It's fun to find a new author who instantly becomes your "fav." Sue Grafton and Janet Evanovich look to your laurels. And you don't have to be from L.A. to appreciate the trendy and yes, seedy locale of Hollywood.
Eva Batonne has obviously been around the strip, the hills and the dank basements that L.A. police must probe, sometimes uncovering porn queens and movie moguls and their surprising perversities. Chock full of mind-bending suspense, erotica and even a touch of voodoo, "Diva" is refreshing in its authentic cop dialogues and scenes that never cease to amaze. Someone has been a fly on the wall at police headquarters and methinks it was Batonne! A must read m'friend. - Patricia Wilson