The Lost Coast

 The Lost Coast by Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman is my first read of this father and son author team, although I’ve read and reviewed many Jonathan Kellerman ‘s books. It’s certainly different than the Jonathan Kellerman books that I’m familiar with, different characters and a very different type of plot. This one is actually the fifth novel in the Clay Edison series. Edison is a private investigator who had involuntarily left the police force a year before for reasons that were not fully explained. Edison was approached by a former client about digging into a land deal on the coast in northern California which appeared to be fraudulent. What unfolded was a carefully designed plan to bilk seniors out of their retirement savings, as they were being sold land that never had a chance of being worth the asking prices and appreciating as promised. There’s an assortment of characters in Swann’s Flat, but that also included some disgruntled people who wanted their money back and others who just wanted to be left alone.

 

I must say that this was not my favorite Kellerman novel although it sort of held my interest to the end. I read it out of a sort of reader-loyalty thing, but I probably won’t stay with the series unless the books get a bit better.