And I got home to find the new blurb for the new book, from author Dick Lochte (my good luck charm) - here it is:
Like all of Bruce Kimmel's novels, this one, a whodunit murder mystery, is
a love song to L.A., a celebration of even its noirish nooks and crannies.
His new sleuth-heroine, teenager Adriana Hofstetter, with her wardrobe from
decades past, her wry sense of humor and her odd favorite foods, is a bit
too unique for comparisons to Nancy Drew or Veronica Mars. But her shrewd
deductions and determination to see justice done, even at the expense of
smug policemen, could qualify her as a young Miss Marple, assuming that Miss
Marple were familiar with MySpace and enjoyed the occasional Strawnana Berry
Smoothie from Robeck's.
Dick Lochte, critic and author of "Croaked!"