Mystery
Date Published: March 15, 2023
An obscure rock'n'roll roadie dies under mysterious circumstances. His prized Jimi Hendrix guitar has gone missing. Can Rolly Waters save his new client from the ruthless collectors looking for it?
When nurse and fledgling pilot Lucinda Rhodes hires guitar-playing private detective Rolly Waters to track down a Stratocaster guitar owned by her deceased father, Rolly is thrilled to take on her case, especially when he learns the guitar’s original owner may have been Jimi Hendrix. But Gerry Rhodes’s reckless personal history leads to more questions than Rolly and Lucinda have bargained for, as an aging rock’n’roll impresario, his trophy wife, a Russian gangster and the FBI get involved. When a forty-year-old shooting accident reveals a surprising connection to a pop star’s hit record, Rolly sees darker forces at work. And his and Lucinda’s lives hang in the balance.
Gillespie Field Groove is the fifth book in the Rolly Waters mystery series
Review: In chapter 1, it seemed that we were transporting back to the past in memories of the old Woodstock days. The old was taking one last stroll down memory lane before taking his final breath.
Days later, his daughter, Lucy, requests the assistance of P.I. Rolly to help find an old guitar that might have belonged to Jimi Hendrix. Was it true that anything he might’ve touched would’ve been worth a lot of money? But that wasn’t the most interesting part. The interesting part was that the police thought the old man might’ve been murdered. Now, it had my attention. You’d think that, at this point, Rolly would dig right into the murder. Instead, he goes trolling around old music shops looking for that missing guitar. The character was clearly familiar with the music industry, which was rather fascinating, but, to me, it wasn’t the main focus. I wanted to get into the murder right away.
The narrative was nice and simple with some witty commentary. To be honest, the mystery of the missing guitar was rather appealing but not overly enticing to me. I’m not really a fan of Hendrix or really any of the old music from the time. This would definitely be a good read for those music buffs.
Fairly nice read.
Rating:
3 stars
About the Author
Corey Lynn Fayman has made a career of avoiding the sunlight in his hometown of San Diego, California, where he’s done hard time as a keyboard player for local bands, a sound designer for the world-famous Old Globe Theatre, and an interactive designer for organizations both corporate and sundry. Armed with a B.A. in Creative Writing from UCLA and an M.A. in Educational Technology from SDSU, he’s also taught technology and design courses at various colleges and universities in Southern California.
Fayman's adventures working for the infamous Internet startup MP3.com led him to conceive the character of Rolly Waters, the guitar-playing detective first featured in the San Diego Book Awards nominated mystery, Black’s Beach Shuffle. Unduly encouraged by this early success, he set about writing a second Rolly Waters Mystery, Border Field Blues, winner of the Genre Award at the 2013 Hollywood Book Festival. Desert City Diva, the third novel in the series, was a bronze award winner in Foreword Reviews 2015 Indiefab Book of the Year Awards. The latest in the series, Ballast Point Breakdown, was awarded the best-in-show Geisel Award at the 2021 San Diego Book Awards.
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