You don’t get too many novels about elderly detectives, but Only to Sleep is that rare bird. The Estate of Raymond Chandler the author behind the iconic hard-boiled PI has commissioned writers to spin the character into different directions and Lawrence Osborne takes him to Mexico, on the hunt for a real estate developer who died leaving his widow with a nice life insurance policy.
Throughout sleepy and not so-sleepy small Mexican towns, Marlowe follows the trail of betrayals to the bitter end and just might actually retire for good this time.
Now, to drink with this book, it’s gotta be light so you can keep up with twists and turns of the plot so how about…
CervecerÃa de Colima and their Cayaco Light lager or try Boomtown Brewery and their Euro lager Bad Hombre to tie Los Angeles and an old city nickname back into frame. Or you can go big and have the tequila barrel version of Otra Vez Gose from Sierra Nevada.