Every City Is Every Other City

John McFetridge’s new mystery #EveryCityIsEveryOtherCity proves one thing very clearly - every city IS every other city. The title stems from lead character Gordon Stewart’s main occupation, location scout for motion pictures. From his home in Toronto, where he takes care of his sick father, Stewart searches out the perfect city to be transformed into wherever the script calls for. This makes him ideal for his auxiliary career- private investigator, predominantly small time. When a coworker asks him to help her aunt by getting to the root of her uncle’s suspicious disappearance, Stewart hesitantly agrees. What insures is a little more than he bargained for as it starts to become apparent that the missing uncle may not have shot himself deep in the Northern Canadian woods, but wandered off to Western Canada to live a life of anonymity. Once it becomes clear that there’s more hear than meets the eye we discover that whether you’re hunting film locations or the people that inhabit them, there’s a lot of truth in the old saying : no matter where you go you’ve never left.

McFetridge really can write. I was drawn into this book immediately, and the combination of private eye and movie location scout was interesting.

I really couldn't put this down... kept reading eagerly to find out what was going to happen both with the case and the hero's private life.