Title: The golden orange
First published: 1990
Description: This is from Amazon.com: In his first novel in five years, Joseph Wambaugh focuses on a special part of the California scene, the Gold Coast of Orange County. Winnie Farlow, forty-year-old ex-cop, is more interested in drinking that looking over the yachts and bikinis that decorate exclusive Newport Beach. But his notoriety has brought him to the attention of Tess Binder, a stunningly beautiful and sexually-spirited three-time divorcee with an uncertain future. She brings with her the mystery of her father's death and the fear of her own fate. Soon Winnie, too, is the target of an unknown assailant.
Subjects: Fiction, cops, mystery, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, California, fiction, Newport beach (calif.), fiction, Ex-police officers, Rich people, Boats and boating
Places: Orange County, California