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Vintage Connor: The Blonde in the Lotus Elite

Robert Baty
R. J. Buckley Publishing (2011)
ISBN 9780981965475
Reviewed by Melissa Koltes for RebeccasReads (7/11)

It has been a long time since I enjoyed a book this much.  The writing style made me feel as though I was in an old Humphrey Bogart story (without the word dame being used). 

Ray Connor is a retired Oakland cop and he’s seen it all; the hookers, druggies, gang bangers…the way the street sucks the life out of people.  Connor has a new life, one without the violence.  He finds vintage cars for collectors and he works on his own collectable Porsche, at least until it was stolen. 

Then Evie walks back into his life and turns it upside down.  He daughter is dead and although she was told it was suicide, she is certain her daughter was murdered.  Can the cop she was once in love with help her find out the truth? 

As Ray battles the emotions that his long lost love brings back, he finds himself involved in a case that has more twists than Lombard Street. 

The book is wonderful, fun, engaging and a great mystery.  There are enough suspects to keep the story interesting but not so many that the reader gets confused.  The lines are a bit quirky at times but that is part of the fun of the story. 

I did not care for the ending but there was really no other way it could end and that adds to the great storyline.  This is a truly entertaining novel!

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