Lady Yesterday (The Amos Walker Series #7)

"Lady Yesterday" is the 7th novel in the superb Amos Walker private detective series. Once again, our wise cracking and world weary hero prowls the streets of his native Detroit with moves as fast as his wit. In this outing, Walker's favorite femme fatale, the recovering hooker Iris (first introduced in the series debut, "Motor City Blue"), is back in town and Walker cannot resist doing her a favor by trying to find the father she never knew. Along the way he explores Detroit's fading jazz scene and butts heads with an assortment of lowlifes and mobsters. He also finds to his dismay that his only ally in the police department, his old friend homicide Detective John Alderdyce, is on an extended leave of absence suffering from burnout. "Lady Yesterday" is another excellent entry into this fine series. Walker novels ready like latter day Phillip Marlowe and his cases always take unexpected twists. This one isn't the best of the series (that would be "Sugartown" or "The Glass Highway") because it relies a little too heavilly on some of the elements of past entries. Nevertheless, it is still a very good read.