The third book in the Archer series brings the private investigator to Los Angeles where the disappearance of a screenwriter sets the story in motion.
When David Baldacci introduced private eye Aloysius Archer two books ago, the best-selling writer of crime thrillers says he did so in part to scare himself a little bit.
David Baldacci’s “Dream Town,” which arrives April 19, 2022, is the third in his series about a private eye named Aloysius Archer. In it, Archer is drawn into the seamy underbelly of Hollywood, Los Angeles and Malibu in 1953. “If I had taken Archer, the guy in ‘One Good Deed,’ and put him in the middle of ‘Dream Town,’ he would have lasted like five pages,” Baldacci says. “I had to build that up.”
“What I try to do, I call it my battle plan,” he says. “When I first created the Archer series, it was going to be in the late ’40s. I said, ‘OK, what do I need to know to write, to put people in the late 1940s atmosphere?’ The Hollywood settings required less research, he says, thanks to growing up with an artist older brother who loved the ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s.
When he decided to send Archer to Las Vegas, which at the time was little more than a neon mirage rising out of the desert sands, he hit a jackpot after hours on YouTube.
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