“ Sinewy and pungent, with a fabulous start. Rose Solari, co-founder of Alan Squire Publishing, author of The Last Girl (poetry) and A Secret Woman (a novel) The depictions of sexual transgressions here remind me of Lawrence Durrell’s Justine, while the explorations of memory and its deceptions recall Julian Barnes’ A Sense of an Ending - but the verve and the nerve and the surprises are all fresh. “Featuring a terrifying premise, a beautiful but lethal locale, and a web of erotic entanglements spanning generations and countries, David Downie’s Four of Clubs casts a spinetingling spell. “A terrifying premise, a beautiful but lethal locale, But Ed is going to find the truth of what happened in Coyote Canyon then and now, even if it kills him. He’s an unlikely detective-gawky, mild-mannered, exceptionally honest. The last man standing is Edward Dobbs, also known as Ed the Talking Horse. Was the Christmastide avalanche that swept Serena away an accident-or murder? What about Pete and Don falling off a thousand-foot cliff in the same spot more than forty years later?
There are scores to settle and mysteries to unravel. Passion, lust, betrayal and revenge rage against brotherly love and lifelong loyalty. Pete and Don areįraternal twins, rejected by their parents and brought up in separateĪt Coyote Canyon, a fashionable ski resort in the High Sierra, theirs is not a love triangle. They’re blood brothers, best buds since boyhood. Woman, Serena Swallow, and three men, Pete, Don and Ed. It’s a tale of lifelong friendship, coming of age, and falling in-then out-of love. Four of Clubs: Murder in the High Sierra, a novel of adventure, romance, betrayal Four of Clubs is an adventure novel and murder mystery set in the Sierra Nevada of California in the 1970s, ’80s and the present day.
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