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One of my favourite reads from last year. It's a really great tale about the rise and fall of the hippy movement in the 60s and the musician Orinoco Pony. It has a bit of everything and has a sense of a mystery about it as a modern day journalist goes to America to find out the details surrounding his mother's death in 1969.
I was so taken in that I googled Orinoco Pony, but you've all done that kind of thing haven't you? Haven't you?*?!
This is what it says -
"If you can remember the Sixties you weren't really there, or at least that's what some people say.
Orinoco Pony, successful musician and the prince of psychedelia, remembers them all too clearly, in spite of doing everything within his powers to to blot them out.
While eloping with the love of his life as they attempt to elope to Paris, Pony crashes the car while tripping. Katya dies in the accident and he's been on the run ever since, finally settling in to an isolated existence in California's Big Sur.
The one loose end from the accident, Katya's son, decides to investigate the truth behind his mother's death and that of her killer after stumbling across a source of intriguing new information.
"Part mystery and entirely engaging, the story burns slowly to its explosive and thought-provoking conclusion."'
Sounds interesting.