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All Your Lies Came True
Failed rocker Declan "Deck" St. James lives in L.A., eking out an existence writing click-bait for scandal sheets. When his old friend Art Schulman—sobriety coach to the stars—shows up and invites Deck to Joshua Tree check out a hot new band, the drunk and drug-addled Deck passes on what he thinks is thinly-veiled intervention. Two days later, Art is found dead of a mysterious overdose. With the help of his ex-bandmate and former best friend Stevie, Deck launches an investigation and quickly learns nothing is what it seems, from the hot new band nobody has heard to the strange cult outside Joshua Tree. Deck and Stevie are forced put their differences aside in order to put the band back together for one last show. It could be the biggest gig of their lives ... or the last time they are seen alive.
240 pages, Paperback
Published July 5, 2016
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May 24, 2022
Couldn't help but stay up way too late finishing this one. A novel full of flawed, understandable and witty characters with unique voices, particularly the lead character, Declan. He doesn't slow down and doesn't let go. Really well written with a well developed plot with narrative tension that keeps pulling you along.
May 12, 2023
3.5/5
August 21, 2016
Full disclosure: I am friends with this author, so find it hard to separate the work from the writer. Especially when I hear a lot of his voice in that of the main character, Declan.
All Your Lies Came True is a gumshoe detective story, set in LA and the desert around Joshua Tree/29 Palms. I usually avoid plot-driven novels, but this one kept me turning the page for a few reasons - the main one being the "hero" is a failed rockstar reduced to writing tabloid fodder as he swigs Irish coffee. While he tries to "be good" around Stevie, his former bitter bandmate, Deck's addictions give him an unpredictability and places him in dangerous situations a sharper dick would avoid. Art, the victim, is sympathetic and known both to junkies he helped get clean, and bands whose careers he launched. The vivid L.A. rock scene and its seedy underbelly is a cool setting for this mystery to unfold in.
Another pleasure of the novel is Creedon's descriptions of music - the build of a song, the video that locks into a young imagination, the exhilaration of discovering a new favorite band live - he truly captures what draws both fans and artists to that scene. You may find yourself trying to find PowerTrash on Spotify after savoring this book!
All Your Lies Came True is a gumshoe detective story, set in LA and the desert around Joshua Tree/29 Palms. I usually avoid plot-driven novels, but this one kept me turning the page for a few reasons - the main one being the "hero" is a failed rockstar reduced to writing tabloid fodder as he swigs Irish coffee. While he tries to "be good" around Stevie, his former bitter bandmate, Deck's addictions give him an unpredictability and places him in dangerous situations a sharper dick would avoid. Art, the victim, is sympathetic and known both to junkies he helped get clean, and bands whose careers he launched. The vivid L.A. rock scene and its seedy underbelly is a cool setting for this mystery to unfold in.
Another pleasure of the novel is Creedon's descriptions of music - the build of a song, the video that locks into a young imagination, the exhilaration of discovering a new favorite band live - he truly captures what draws both fans and artists to that scene. You may find yourself trying to find PowerTrash on Spotify after savoring this book!
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