Sinister Heights

Name: Sinister Heights
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Loren Estleman
ISBN: 9798337208084

Author: Loren Estleman

Series: The Amos Walker Mysteries #15

Narrator: Dallin

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 04/21/2026

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled, Private Investigators

Synopsis

Detroit PI Amos Walker steps into a lethal family feud when the beautiful widow of a powerful industrialist hires him to find her late husband's illegitimate children This audiobook is narrated using advanced digital voice technology for clear, natural-sounding storytelling. Leland Stutch was building automobiles before Henry Ford ever dreamed up the Model T. He dominated Detroit for most of the 20th century as the auto industry soared and then began its long, slow descent. When Stutch's widow contacts Amos Walker, the private eye expects to meet a doddering old lady. Instead he encounters Rayellen, a 30-something beauty with washboard abs and 1 of the most unusual propositions he's ever heard. Unconcerned with matrimonial vows, the most powerful man in Detroit left mistresses—and love children—all over Michigan. To stave off any future paternity suits, Rayellen hires Walker to locate Stutch's illegitimate offspring and pay them off—a seemingly simple task that draws the detective into a dysfunctional family's war zone and a violent case of kidnapping and murder. Sinister Heights is the 15th book in the Amos Walker Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Larry on August 03, 2013

You will enjoy this book a lot more if you are familiar with the Detroit area. I lived in that area for the first thirty years of my life so I qualify in being familiar. This book is filled with street names that I know. Sinister Heights was published in 2002 when Detroit was on the verge of losing......more

Goodreads review by Cynthia on January 24, 2025

I really enjoyed this book and I am now a fan of the Amos Walker Series that Estleman writes. I see that they’re very popular in the online library. It was relatively clean and very suspenseful. Not entirely predictable on all counts. This story involved an inheritance and a family that is unknown a......more

Goodreads review by Liam on September 03, 2016

I thought the cover looked familiar, but it was not until this morning that I realised I had already read this book, in early 2008. I feel a bit mean giving 'Sinister Heights' only two stars, because Loren Estleman is a nice guy, but if anyone else had written a passage that angered me to such a de......more

Goodreads review by Matt on November 14, 2015

After a break in my Amos Walker reading--longer than anyone should be comfortable with--Sinister Heights was a great episode in the case files of the first private detective I know of capable of diagraming sentences while getting his head bounced off walls by union lackeys and illegitimate children......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on August 12, 2010

Ah, such fun to wallow in the language and story of an Ellroy. 15th in the Amos Walker, PI, series, I have read perhaps 4 or 5 others. They all hark back to Chandler, Ross MacDonald, and Hammett and compare very favorably: the good looking broads, battering husbands, upper crust society, and everyon......more