{"product_id":"blue-mood-lloyd-penry-9798265818218","title":"Blue Mood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlue Mood\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Billy Blaze Novel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Lloyd Penry\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I lifted my face, leaving an abstract smear behind. Wiping it with my sleeve blurred the evidence. Evidence that I'd slept better in borrowed silence than I ever had in the arms of someone who cared.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The only things that ever broke in a place this beautiful were the people themselves. And they were beautiful too. Designer men and women, caught in the same fragile dance with designer pills.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormer detective William \"Billy\" Blaze is just trying to keep the lights on at his nameless consultancy on Eventide Boulevard when a stranger drops a fat envelope of cash and a single request: find Adélia Gerrold, a beautiful, troubled young woman who vanished from the wrong side of Ocean Parade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe vanished.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlaze has learned that some disappearances are better left unsolved-but this one won't let him go. The trail runs from powder-stained bedsheets through the city's blooming after-dark garden, down Avoca's shadowed laneways, and into Isla Sombría's glittering resort underworld. Everywhere he turns, whispers of dreamflower rise-a designer drug sweeping through Hourglass County like a tide-and men willing to kill to keep it flowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHe followed.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStalked by a metallic purple Corvette with plates that read \u003ci\u003eL8NITE\u003c\/i\u003e, trailed by crooked lawyers, fading cops, and ghosts of his own past, Blaze spirals deeper into a world where nothing is what it seems. The closer he comes to Adélia, the more he is seduced by the dark current threatening to drag him under.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe rest is what you came here for.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart crime thriller, part refracted fairytale, \u003ci\u003eBlue Mood\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines the \u003ci\u003ePretty Woman\u003c\/i\u003e myth through Blaze's weary, haunted eyes. A hard-boiled, dream-drenched noir about power, corruption, and obsession-saturated with the atmosphere of the early nineties, alive with the music, cars, and danger of the decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Imagine Dalton's 1987 Bond sensibilities crashing into Moore's polished playground. That's the raw, stylish dissonance of Blue Mood.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlaze returns in \u003ci\u003eMood Bloom\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lloyd Penry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798265818218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d","brand":"Lloyd Penry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49170527518975,"sku":"9798265818218","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blue-mood-lloyd-penry-9798265818218","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}