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# The Lola Quartet: A Suspense Thriller Paperback – August 4, 2015

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Sweet Spot Between Mystery/Supense and Literary Fiction
  

*by D***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2021*

Mandel set the bar really high with Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel.  Maybe I’m just starting to take her for granted, but this one wasn’t quite at the same level as those books.That said, this is a very good book.  Mandel knows how to hit the Goldilocks zone between popular suspense or mystery fiction and the more acquired taste of esoteric literary fiction.  Mandel hits that zone, with compelling suspense, deep characters, and a bit of unconventional story-telling.The unconventional with her is often a matter of shifting character perspectives and dances in time.  The narrative is never linear.  But it’s not hard to follow, and actually in this story, the effects are less abrupt than in the others I’ve ready by Mandel.The story here shifts through five characters, four of them members of the Lola Quartet, high school musicians at a school for the performing arts, and the fifth, a central character around whom the quartet members revolve.Anna is that fifth character, an unwed mother who disappears during the quartet’s final performance.  The plot of the story also revolves around Anna, her daughter, why she disappeared, what trouble she has gotten into, where she is, and who the actual father of Anna’s daughter, Chloe, is.The quartet’s members include Gavin, Anna’s high school boyfriend, who is presumed to be Chloe’s father.  Gavin is haunted by Anna’s disappearance and wants to find her and Chloe and somehow resolve their relationship and his own responsibilities.  Gavin had played trumpet in the quartet.Daniel, bass player in the quartet, works for the police in the quartet’s hometown of Sebastiana, Florida.  Daniel carries a peculiar antagonism toward Gavin.  Something’s up there.Sasha is Anna’s step-sister and played drums in the quartet.  She’s in and out of touch with her sister, recovering from a gambling addiction, working the night shift in a diner in Sebastiana.Jack had been the most gifted musician in the quartet but has fallen into addiction and depression.  He seemed to be a gifted pianist, also a saxophonist.  But it didn’t work for him, and he’s back in Sebastiana, living in a tent.Gavin’s search for Anna drives the story, and it revisits the relationships among all the members of the quartet, where their lives, especially their emotional lives, have taken them since that final performance.Gavin and Anna are on a circuitous collision course.  From that last performance  when Anna disappeared, to now, there’s a lot of reckoning to be done on all sides.  Why did Anna leave?  What trouble did she get into that has her living on the run?  And how do Gavin and Anna reach resolution?Mandel keeps things moving both in action and emotion.  She’s masterful, and I’m going to keep reading anything she publishes.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Literary fiction at its best An atmospheric tale of love, fear and unrealised potential.
  

*by R***Y on Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2014*

Gavin Sasaki is a man of another age. He loves jazz, fedoras and a time before technology, but the biggest challenge Gavin faces is the news he may have a ten year old daughter with Anna, the girlfriend who left him in high school and whom he hasn’t seen since. The news shocks him into a downward spiral that sees him fired from his job as a journalist and living on his sister’s charity in the home town he fled ten years earlier. As Gavin seeks Anna and the truth, he reconnects with friends from his old school band – the Lola Quartet – and soon realises Anna and his former friends have deep secrets that could put them all in danger.The story opens with Anna – seventeen, on the run with a baby, and one hundred and twenty thousand dollars strapped to the underside of the stroller. Yet this is Gavin’s story, and we learn of Anna through his rose-coloured memories. The Lola Quartet has been called Literary Noir. It is the story of a crime, dark secrets and a woman on the run, yet it is principally a tale of broken dreams, redemption and the consequences of choices made. The pace is gentle. The background of jazz clubs and musicians is a wonderful counterpoint for the oppressiveness of the Florida humidity and the dreams destroyed by the sub-prime collapse – all facets of Gavin’s new life. As we learn more of the past and what happened to Anna, it emerges that the slightly enigmatic girl Gavin remembers is a woman of determination and contrasts who will do just about anything to protect her child.The Lola Quartet is literary fiction at its best.Mandel’s deft touch draws you into a contemporary world that is both very real and somewhat elusive and which stays with you long after it is read.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Long Way from High School
  

*by E***E on Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2020*

The setting  of this book in Sebastiana, Florida is as much a character as the four high school musicians in The Lola Quartet, Anna, the girlfriend of one of the guys, trumpet player Gary, and half-sister to the drummer, Sasha. Jack (guitar) and Daniel(bass) are the other members of The quartet.  The novel follows The bumpy paths of these five people for the next decade. Eventually all of them end up back in Sebastiana.  The ever present  heat of South Florida sends Gary into heat strokes and he left the town behind as soon as he could;  he went to school at Columbia and becomes a journalist. The downward slide of all the quartet members and Anna with not so much a mystery but rather a hovering menace stirred into the mix lacks the smooth touch of the author's Station Eleven. It is compelling enough to keep the pages turning to the very end. And the reader is kept off balance till the last page. It is not predictable. It is just not as good as one hopes because Station Eleven was so darn perfect.  Good enough. Not a heck of a lot of hope parceled out for anyone. But competently told with interesting characters.

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