Liberty is a wonderful foil to Archer, and I hope this duo continues in future installments. Baldacci keeps the pace moving with just the right balance of history and action. Archer is a perfect anti-hero-kind to women, leery of others, a gentleman in a less than gentlemanly world. As the bodies pile up, Archer is forced to dig deep into Bay Town’s secrets before he winds up a victim himself. When the alleged mistress is found dead in the town’s burlesque club, everyone becomes a suspect. When a mayoral candidate comes to Dash and Archer with claims of an affair and blackmail, the duo sets out to find the culprit. In Bay Town, Archer finds a community divided by the haves and have nots. Trouble follows, and Archer learns that Liberty has a past as ominous as his own. With Liberty at his side, Archer drives on to Bay Town, but Reno won’t leave them alone. After rescuing a debt-laden gambler from mobsters, Archer is repaid with a flashy 1939 Delahaye 165 imported from France. A stop in Reno introduces Archer to Liberty Callahan, a cabaret singer with her eyes on Hollywood, and lady luck fills his pockets. He hopes to hang his shingle in Bay Town, California working for a former FBI agent-turned PI, Willie Dash. After a near-fatal stay in Poca City (in One Good Deed), Aloysius Archer is headed west to become a Private Investigator.
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