The Wheel of Doll by Jonathan Ames
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The eponymous and hapless detective Happy Doll returns with a new philosophy and a new case in this second installment of a series ?that's a tightly coiled double helix of offbeat humor and unflinching violence? (NYTBR) Although badly scarred and down to his last kidney after the previous caper, Happy Doll is back in business. When a beguiling young woman turns up at his door, it?s Doll?s past that comes knocking. Mary DeAngelo is searching for her estranged mother, Ines Candle?a singular and troubled woman Doll once loved. The last he?d seen her she?d been near-death: arms slit like envelopes. Although she survived the episode, she vanished shortly thereafter. Now, years later, Mary claims Ines is alive and has recently made contact?messaging her on Facebook and calling her from a burner phone?only to disappear once again. Although his psychoanalyst would discourage it, Doll takes the case, desperate to see Ines again. But as the investigation deepens, there are questions he can?t
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