THE LOLA QUARTET

Gavin Sasaki, a promising young journalist in New York, is fired in disgrace after a series of unforgivable lapses in his work. Drifting towards bankruptcy, Gavin returns to his hometown, Sebastian, Florida, where he hears of a 10-year-old child who looks very much like himself and who has the last name of his high school girlfriend Anna, whom Gavin last saw a decade ago. Gavin, now a reluctant broker of foreclosed properties, obsessed with film noir and private detectives, begins his own private investigation to track down Anna and their apparent daughter.

"Mandel has a voice like no other. She is subtle, quiet, but devastating in her unerring talent to disturb the reader in her use of crime tropes and damaged characters." - Maxim Jakubowski