Vega ignored his tone and continued: ‘I don’t think you’re angry because I haven’t called you. I think you’re angry because I almost got you killed three times.’
In this riveting novel, the fearless and resourceful private investigator Alice Vega is hired to track down Zeb Williams, an athlete who went missing over thirty years ago after a famous loss. Zeb’s mysterious disappearance has earned him a cult following and still haunts the marriage of his ex-girlfriend.
Estranged from her partner and ex-cop Max Caplan, Vega heads alone to a small town in the Pacific Northwest of the USA where Zeb was last seen, and where an anxious community is threatened by a local hate group, the Liberty Boys. As Vega infiltrates the group, she uncovers disturbing secrets that put at risk her own father and Cap’s daughter. No one can cut to the truth like Alice Vega, but this time is it too much for her to handle?
For readers of Dennis Lehane, Candice Fox and Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series. Louisa Luna’s Alice Vega novels are unputdownable, full of sly humour, complex characters and masterful storytelling.
We were first introduced to bounty-hunter-turned-PI Alice Vega and her wise, measured ex-cop partner Max Caplan in Two Girls Down, when she was hired by a mother to locate her two young daughters who had disappeared from a parking lot in a small Pennsylvania town. In the follow-up, The Janes, Vega and her partner Caplan returned but this time they were working with the police, hired off the books as a consultant to the DEA, investigating the discovery of two unidentified young women – one of them was found with a piece of paper clutched in her hand with Vega’s name on it.
Now, in this third instalment, Alice Vega and Max uncover a network of American white supremacists in their search for a long-lost counter-culture hero. Zeb Williams was in front of sixty thousand spectators at a college football game, but when he exited the stadium, he was never seen again. When Alice arrives in town, she finds more than she bargained for.
Hideout is Luna’s most intimate thriller yet, a classic cold case wrapped in a confrontation with a terrifyingly real network of white supremacists and homegrown terrorists. All three books in the series read well as standalones, but once you’ve read one, you’ll want to read them all. This is a pitch-perfect thriller, with polished writing, great characters and packed with twists and turns. Non-stop adrenaline, as always with Luna.
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