Dexter Vega is an out-of-work journalist, who spends most of his days
drinking life away. One day while sitting in a bar, he sees an older man
getting beaten up. Dexter being half in the bag, breaks up the fight and
finds out the man's name is Nick. Nick invites Dexter back to his
mansion, where he offers Dexter a job to find his lost daughter, Maya.
Nick claims that his daughter was attending college and now has
disappeared. Dexter needs some time to think this over. Even though
he is out of work, he really is not a private investigator. But the pay is
something he just can't pass up. After deciding to take the job, Dexter
returns to Nick's home to find that Nick has been murdered. The first
suspect is Dexter; his fingerprints are all over the murder weapon.
Dexter tries to explain to the cops why his prints are there, but they are
having none of it. Dexter knows that the answer to the murder is to find
Maya. According to Nick's will, Maya will receive her father's entire
fortune.
In the hunt for Maya, Dexter has to travel to Mexico. After several days,
Dexter does finally meet with Maya, but she tells Dexter a completely
different story about Nick... who was not all that he seemed. Was Maya
actually behind his murder?
Talk about a book that has so many different twists you don't know
which way to turn. Danny Lopez writes that kind of book. At times in
this book I was getting a little bored, but then it picked right back up. I
can't wait for the next one. The character of Dexter is one that you will
really come to like. At times, Dexter is a little out of control, but you still
can't help but like him. You might wonder how a journalist can be a
detective. Well, most journalists would have to investigate what they
are working on, so in a way they are detectives. THE LAST GIRL has mystery, some romance, and tons
of shock. Pick it up, and don't give up when you hit some of the slow
spots because it does get better, with a surprising ending.
After being laid off from his job as a newspaper reporter in
a coastal Florida town, Dexter Vega meets a wealthy retiree
who hires him to find his daughter who is supposed to be
attending the local college. When Vega visits his client to
inform him that his daughter is in Mexico, he discovers the
man has been murdered. And Vega’s prints are all over the
murder weapon.
As the police build a case against him, Vega flies to Mexico
City to locate his client’s daughter, hoping she will help
him find the murderer and thus clear his name. But when he
finds the woman, she tells him a very different
story―nothing is as it seems.
Beaten by thugs and ordered to leave Mexico, Vega returns
home to find himself immersed in a web of blackmail, greed,
and revenge. Still pursued by the cops―and now a target of
evil predators.
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