Father and son are back at it in "The Lost Coast" and they did not disappoint with this one. Lots of action, thrilling from beginning to end and it is a great addition to the series they have written together. If you like Jonathan Kellerman, you will enjoy his latest in the series with Jesse. Looking forward to what happens next in this series!

Chris Villareal becomes the executor of his grandmother’s estate and discovers a suspicious charge to her account. It is discovered to be a scheme. This scheme takes Clay Edison to Swann’s Flat, California where he will then uncover an additional problem during his investigation causing him to solve two cases. I enjoyed the characters in this book. There were so many agendas I became a little confused at one point but it quickly came together. The setting was vividly described I felt like I had seen the area before. This is a series but can be read as a standalone. This book was fast paced and did not drag on. I highly recommend!
Thank you Random House Publishing Group/Ballantine Books, Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman and NetGalley for this ARC. This is my honest review.

This is the latest Clay Edison thriller from Jonathan Kellerman and his son Jesse Kellerman. The Kellermans make a great writing team. The characters are unique and this is a credit to both authors. Clay is investigating a con game that is being played out on a remote California coastal town. The plot has multiple layers and is filled with exciting twists. A definite must read for anyone who enjoys a fun thriller.

This is part of a series, and it would likely be best to read them in order, even though there is backstory given about the characters. The first half of the book was a bit slow for the genre, but the patient did pick up for the second half. There were a few unexpected twists, and the ending was satisfying. An okay read overall.

This is my first Clay Edison book and it won't be my last. The mystery that unfolded was intriguing from the start. There were so many layers to the story. I enjoyed how everything fit together once we got to the end. Clay is a fun and interesting main character. I liked the other characters in the story too. The ending was quite a surprise. I really found the end to be satisfying. I received an advance copy from NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving a review.

A big fan of the Alex Delaware series, The Lost Coast is my first book cowritten by Jesse Kellerman. The Clay Edison series, book five, is consistent with the action-packed and engaging Delaware books. Clay, a private detective, is hired to look into a case of possible real estate fraud and soon finds himself deep in a much larger and very dangerous web of crime. It takes place in the lost coast of California, a remote and rugged terrain that takes on its own character of peril. The characters are authentic, and the bad guys are really bad. I recommend this title for its fast-paced adventure and excellent setting. Thank you, Netgalley and publisher, for the opportunity to read this advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

An interesting procedural mystery and a great summer read! Clay is actually hired by a man named executor of his grandmother's estate because he believed she was being scammed. In his quest to get answers, he stumbles upon a second mystery and a quirky off the beaten path town whose residents hold a lot of secrets.

This definitely kept my attention and I enjoy Clay and his family life and the interesting characters he meets and works with along the way.

Thanks to the publisher via NetGalley for a review copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This is the fifth book in the Clay Edison series by Jonathan Kellerman. While I have read and enjoyed several of Kellerman's Alex Delaware series, this is the first in the Edison series for me. It was easily read as a stand alone.

Description:
It's been almost a year since Clay Edison was forced out of his job at the coroner's bureau. Now he's on his own, working as a private eye. When a client brings him a fraud case, Clay dives into a decades-old scheme targeting the vulnerable. His investigation leads him to a bizarre town buried in the remote California wilderness. The residents don't care much for outsiders. They certainly don't like Clay asking questions. And they'll do just about anything to shut him up.

My Thoughts:
A very strange and unusual town Clay is investigating and it puts him in danger. I did enjoy the investigation as well as the well-defined characters. I really liked the quirky private investigator Clay teamed up with to help unravel the intricacies of this mysterious situation. The plot held my interest. It was a little slow in the middle with a fast-paced, tense buildup to the ending. I recommend to anyone who likes a good mystery.

Thanks to Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine through Netgalley for an advance copy.

The Lost Coast by the father/son team of Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman is the next book in their Clay Edison series. These are books with a definite beginning and ending and can be read as standalones.

"Clay helps a friend by looking into some financial discrepancies in his grandmother's estate. He follows the problem to an isolated community on the coast of Northern California. There he finds a trigger happy group willing to do anything to keep theor secrets."

Clay is an interesting character - a former star athlete, a coroner, a cop and now just a private investigator. Family is more important than solving a case - mostly. Here he digs and digs until he pushes the bad guys to the brink.
The Kellermans do a great job of making you feel the remote isolation because of the rugged road. The town always feels like it's a thousand miles from civilization. What Clay finds is more than a simple con.

Wild ending! The Kellermans make you wonder who will be left.

Great story from J & J Kellerman.

The Lost Coast is the 5th Clay Edison PI procedural by Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman. Released 6th Aug 2024 by Penguin Random House on their Ballantine imprint, it's 384 pages and is available in hardcover, audio, paperback, and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout.

This is a well written PI investigation in a very well written series. A brazen real estate scam has lone wolf private investigator Clay digging into the background of a number of seriously shady characters who would strongly prefer to remain under the radar.

The plotting is (as always) very tight and action driven. It's eminently readable and exciting. The denouement and resolution are satisfying and self-contained in this volume. For readers unfamiliar with the characters, it works well as a standalone, with minor spoilers for earlier works. There is some rough language and a fair bit of violence.

Although it's not derivative at all, fans of Robert B. Parker, Stuart Woods, and Michael Connelly will likely enjoy this one. There are 5 books extant in the series; it would make a great binge/buddy read or choice for mystery bookclub study.

Four and a half stars. A solid mystery in a very solid, very long-running series.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

This was my first Clay Edison book. I’ve read every Alex Delaware novel, and some of Jonathan Kellerman’s other books. I’m a definite fan.

That being said, I really enjoyed this book a lot, so much so that I intend to read the previous ones and catch up on the back story. This book was great as a standalone, though.

The tale built in starting in the first few chapters and turned into a full-blown mystery that was action-packed and kept me turning pages to try to figure it out. Clay began out with a client wondering about some discrepancies in his grandmother’s estate. When Clay connects the dots to a piece of property on California’s Lost Coast, the plan is for him to go up and look at it, take a few pictures, and work out what kind of crooked scene the guys there are trying (and succeeding) to pull off. He drives up, meets some of the people there, including the real-estate scoundrels, and goes back to report. It’s when he decides to take a return trip and he picks up a partner to go with him that it all becomes really interesting.

Loved it! Clay is one of the good guys. I hope Regina returns too.

This was my first Clay Edison book. I’ve read every Alex Delaware novel, and some of Jonathan Kellerman’s other books. I’m a definite fan.

That being said, I really enjoyed this book a lot, so much so that I intend to read the previous ones and catch up on the back story. This book was great as a standalone, though.

The tale built in starting in the first few chapters and turned into a full-blown mystery that was action-packed and kept me turning pages to try to figure it out. Clay began out with a client wondering about some discrepancies in his grandmother’s estate. When Clay connects the dots to a piece of property on California’s Lost Coast, the plan is for him to go up and look at it, take a few pictures, and work out what kind of crooked scene the guys there are trying (and succeeding) to pull off. He drives up, meets some of the people there, including the real-estate scoundrels, and goes back to report. It’s when he decides to take a return trip and he picks up a partner to go with him that it all becomes really interesting.

Loved it! Clay is one of the good guys. I hope Regina returns too.

The Lost Coast by Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman is number five in a series about private investigator Clay Edison but I did not realize that when I started to read the book .This book was easy to read as a stand alone.Clay is investigating an estate of a person who had spent a lot of money to buy and take care of a property in Northern California.The property was called Swann*s Flat Resort and things are not as described! It is when Clay teams up with PI Regina Klein that things get really interesting!I enjoyed this action packed story and will go back and read more of the series! I look forward to more books with the team of Clay and Regina!Thank you Netgalley and Ballantine Books for allowing me to read this ARC!i

Let me say right from the start that while The Lost Coast is the 5th book in the Clay Edison series, it happens to be my first time reading the series. For decades I’ve been a huge fan of the Alex Delaware novels so I have no idea how I managed to overlook this series. This is all my longwinded way of saying, I read this book without having any knowledge of the previous volumes in the series, and I’m more than happy to say I wasn’t really lost at all and this one can work as a stand alone. Yes, there are definitely references to stuff that occurred in the previous books, but I still had no real problem following this story. Am I curious to read about all that came before this one? Yes, yes I am, and as such will be picking the the first four books very soon.

Clay Edison used to be a coroner but now works as a PI. An old friend asks him to help out a guy he’s mentoring. He just lost his grandmother and has been made the executor of her will, only he’s found some odd recurring payments she’s been making for years and doesn’t know what they are about. This is the start of Clay heading down a twisting rabbit hole that will lead him to a curious town out in the California wilderness, and that’s when the mystery really kicks into gear. I really enjoyed this one. Great characters and an intriguing storyline really hooked me. As I said, I don’t know how I managed to overlook this series for so long, but now I’m not only am I looking forward the next book in the series, but I cab’t wait to jump into the previous volumes as well. I’d like to thank Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine | Ballantine Books, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review an eARC of The Lost Coast.

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The Lost Coast by Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman is a Clay Edison novel, book five. Clay is a private investigator retired from the police department as an officer-coroner. Under a cloud. He is married with two children and he has a penchant for putting himself in dangerous situations. This story is about one of those situations: a seemingly simple favor for the friend of a friend who is trying to settle his grandmother’s will. There’s not much there but Chris is thorough and he sees payments of $235 per month, going back years; the checks made out to SFRA. Not very enlightening. Clay looks further and discovers, what appears to be a real estate venture. Seems grandmother bought a seaside lot, sight unseen, on the recommendation of her lawyer. After some investigation, Clay decides to get a look for himself, because not only had she been paying for years, but there was a balance of $60,000 in the loan. What he found was beyond interesting, so interesting, in fact, that he located the P.I who had investigated for another owner and took her along for a second look.

Clay is a good guy and he has an excellent wife; a wife who worries, constantly, about him. He has a way of ferreting out good people and making them friends/allies. This was a complicated and dangerous scheme, one no one there wanted uncovered, some because they were involved, other because they were afraid. People died, some by accident, some not. It was a complex plot with lots of beautiful scenery and some that was not so beautiful. It was so far into the treacherous mountains that even the police would not come. It was beautifully written and supremely entertaining, for those that like this kind of novel. The characters were intriguing and the plot too likely. Excellent book. Thanks, Kellermans, for writing about Clay Edison!

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There will be no disappointments with The Lost Coast by Jonathan Kellerman and Kesse Kellerman. This mystery takes readers into a little known, isolated area that harbors a variety of criminals.

This is a good PI story with lots of intrigue! Filled with many characters, I didn’t quite know which ones to believe! Enjoyed this and look forward to the next one!

The search for truth can lead down dangerous paths.

When former coroner turned PI Clay Edison is asked by a young man to look into some odd entries he discovered while settling his grandmother’s estate, Clay doesn’t think it will turn into much and tells his client to keep his expectations low. Those entries lead Clay to a piece of land the grandmother purchased on the advice of a trusted community member who was part of a large scale swindling operation. It would be nearly impossible to prove that fraud occurred, as others who were cheated by the same group have discovered, and would cost more than the client could ever recoup, but it bothers Clay (and the young man who initially hired him) that the shady entity behind the land scheme will continue to defraud others. While out surveying the land, reached by travelling over nearly impassable roads, Clay meets the small group of secretive people who actually live in the mostly undeveloped town of Swann’s Flat including Shasta, an intriguing teenaged girl wearing a distinctive necklace that Clay is sure he saw worn by a young man featured on a missing person flyer posted in a nearby town. Clay is no longer being paid to investigate the strange goings on in Swann’s Flat, but he feels compelled to keep following the threads he has uncovered. He joins forces with Regina Klein, a diminutive but foul mouthed PI who had worked for the mother of the missing young man until funds ran out but who is similarly reluctant to walk away. How do a coming-of-age novel written by an author who walked away after a promising debut, the missing young man who seemed obsessed by it, and the tiny community seemingly financed by the long term sketchy real estate schemes tie together? There are secrets that some would prefer stay buried….and they might be willing to kill to keep them that way.
Clay Edison is a man compelled to run towards danger when others would choose to turn towards safety, and that tendency has caused strain in his marriage. With two young children to think of as well, his wife insists that before he launches himself into unknown situations that he level with her about potential dangers and that he update her regularly as to his whereabouts and progress. That proves tricky to do as he is an area with no cell phone coverage and immersed in a situation that morphs from under control to life-threatening in a heartbeat. As Clay unravels the different puzzles which pop up as he looks into what at first seems to be a run-of-the-mill real estate scam, the reader is drawn into the intrigue and meets numerous quirky characters along the way. Plenty of possible villains and a remote, rugged locale add to the allure of this, the fifth installment in the series featuring Clay Edison. Fans of either of the authors’ other books as well as those who enjoy authors like Lee Child, Bruce Borgos and Michael Connelly should give this suspenseful thriller a try. Many thanks to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for allowing me early access to The Lost Coast.

The Lost Coast is the best Clay Edison book yet!

Many things about Edison have changed while others have stayed the same. No longer a deputy coroner, but a private investigator, he looks into a case that has him entering a community with many questions after being asked to look into a questionable statement upon a death. Edison asks questions and investigates like always. However, in The Lost Coast, we see Edison even better at investigation and containing much more suspense, which personally, I loved

Like books from all the Kellermans, this book is one you cannot put down - I read it in one sitting! If you love investigations, mysteries, suspense, and of course, books by any of the Kellermans, this a must read!!

( Side note: there is no need to read other books in the series to enjoy this book!)

This was an entertaining, well-written book. It was action-packed and fascinating. I couldn't put it down. I enjoyed this book and am eager to read more books in this series and others by these authors.

The Lost Coast by Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman is a contemporary thriller! The main character is Clay Edison, a PI who used to work in the law. Clay’s strongest characteristics are his doggedness and persistence. Luckily he is also courageous and intelligent.

The novel focuses on Clay trying to figure out what happened to missing money from a client’s grandmother’s estate. As he continues to move forward other storylines add into the equation. Two more people seem to have some connection to the case. There seems to be a town in the midst of nowhere in California. People have been paying for the land, then the maintenance, and other “expenses” for years. Money being pretty much stolen from the elderly. Clay is determined to find the answers.

Jesse Kellerman is Jonathan’s son. When they write together, the main character is Clay. The books are well written. They build up the suspense until you realize there is no easy solution until that last twist or two.

The Lost Coast reminds me of the gist of city slickers being stuck in the backcountry, but the storyline is more sophisticated. The Lost Coast by Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman is a good read!