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When a Carole King or a Susan Sontag goes missing, it's good to have a Jewish detective on the case

JL;DR SUMMARY Daniel Weizmann's debut novel, "The Last Songbird," spearheads a new series of mystery thrillers set along the Pacific Coast Highway. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish Culture1970s MusicLyft DriverJewish DetectiveDaniel WeizmannMystery ThrillerLa NoirThe Last SongbirdAdam ZantzPacific Coast Highway

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Los Angeles, California, United States
"Adam Addy Zantz, the novels protagonist, is a Lyft driver in his late 30s who still dreams of making it in the music business."
Malibu, California, United States
"Addys odyssey takes us from wealthy Malibu enclaves to ugly strip malls to forgotten stretches of Mid-City Los Angeles to gorgeous stretches of the Pacific Coast Highway, as he attempts to untangle the web that somehow connects Annie to a strange array of characters that include Hollywood junkies, showbiz hangers-on, obsessive fans, radical feminists, mens rights advocates, a dead urologist and a Black hardware salesman with a musical past."
Israel
"First of all, I was born in Israel; Im half Ashkenazi, half Mizrahim or Sephardic, and I grew up in a very Jewish environment."

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