Castles Burning

Jacob Asch Mystery #5

by Arthur Lyons

Asch tracks down the wife and child deserted by a famous artist, finding murder at every turn.

Genres: Mystery, Detective

231 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

A member of the Palm Springs City Council from 1992-1995. Authored 21 books and numerous mystery novels. His 1986 novel "Castles Burning," which took place in Palm Springs, furnished the basis for the telemovie "Slow Burn" with Johnny Depp. Author of "Death on the Cheap -- The Lost B Movies of Film Noir.".

Reviews

[Jack Heath]

Synopsis: Asch tracks down a wife and child deserted by a famous artist; he finds murder at every turn.

[no elle]

this is the one that inspired a eric roberts tv movie from the 80s and is the only reason i bought all of these dumb books. the covers are cool but the last like 4 books have ugly covers, which sucks, but so far theyre all visually bangers and i will celebrate that while i can. the movie is pretty good and it's eric before he went insane, which is cool too, but i like the stuff where he was still trying to be a serious actor. the books improve slightly as u move through them. there's less leering horny stuff but still a lot of im a big man and women are dumb cunts vibes but even those are dwindling. i love when male writers grow, but not too much!!

[Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

With blurbs on his books like - "setting the standard for today's hard-boiled novel" ' "Of all the many pretenders to Raymond Chandler..." I agree that Mr. Lyons' Jacob Asch series, which started in the mid '70's, is a fine hard-boiled series.....then and now.

[Tatiana · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was on a giveaway at th library, basicaly was discarded so I just grabbed red the back cover and decided to take it. I'm not too much into detective novels, but this book was easy to read and keeps you interested pretty much the whole time, despite the end was kinda weak, the book as whole is very good, didn't know this author but certainly I'm going to read some other of his books.