Behind the Scenes of Dan Wesolowski’s Final Sprint
by Felicia M. Tomasko
in I.V,” said Dan Wesolowski. The Santa Barbara author’s series of
detective novels draw on these Isla Vistan personalities to liven
up tales centered around Drake Simo, a man in Isla Vista who has a
knack for solving mysteries and uncovering secrets kept in the
backrooms of keggers and classes.
Final Sprint — the fifth, and by no means final, entry in the
series — is Wesolowski’s most recent novel. Between dashes on his
18-speed racing bike, odd jobs, and romantic adventures, our hero
Simo is hired to uncover the meaning behind what initially appears
to be a senseless death at a keg party, where a young man goes over
a beachside balcony. As we wander the eclectic streets of I.V. by
day and night with Simo, the truths and half-truths are revealed to
be much more sinister than they first appear.