Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Grew Up… in Beaverton, Oregon, a suburb of Portland. A place, Piz says, where there are “real salt-of-the-earth people. You know, minivan in every driveway, chicken in every pot.”
Living… with his roommate, Wallace Fennell, at Hearst College in California. Piz is a freshman who has his car stolen on move-in day. Piz is more concerned about his expensive guitar that was in the backseat, though.
Profession… host of his own college radio show at Hearst, where he’s known for being an insightful interviewer.
Interests… music, radio, and Desmond Fellows. Piz is less of an aspiring musician than he is an aspiring radio host, but that doesn’t mean he’s not completely obsessed with good music. And good music, to Piz, is Desmond Fellows’s former alternative rock band, My Pretty Pony.
Relationship Status… single with a major crush on Veronica. Veronica, as the best friend of Piz’s roommate, is around quite a lot. Though she and Piz become good friends, she often tells him that’s all they will ever be. Still, Piz can’t seem to get her out of his head.
Challenge… getting Veronica to like him, or moving on. The latter seems particularly hard for him, but Piz doesn’t get discouraged – not even when he meets Veronica’s occasional boyfriend, Logan Echolls, who’s a bit more experienced in fistfights than Piz.
Personality… considerate, naïve, and self-deprecating. Piz is a genuinely good guy who’s unafraid to make witty comments about his own shortcomings. He’s a lot more trusting than someone like Veronica. Then again, everyone is more trusting than the cynical Veronica.
Get to Know him in...
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Years after walking away from her past as a teenage private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown—just in time for her high school reunion—in order to help her old flame Logan Echolls, who's embroiled in a murder mystery.
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Veronica Mars is a high school detective with more moxie than Philip Marlowe. Behind the saucy storylines and hard-boiled atmosphere, Veronica Mars is essentially a coming-of-age story that is complex, smart, and not without plenty of humor.
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From Rob Thomas, the creator of the television series and movie phenomenon Veronica Mars, comes the first book in a thrilling mystery series that picks up where the feature film left off. Ten years after graduating from high school in Neptune, California, Veronica Mars is back in the land of sun, sand, crime, and corruption. She's traded in her law degree for her old private investigating license, struggling to keep Mars Investigations afloat on the scant cash earned by catching cheating spouses until she can score her first big case. Now it's spring break, and college students descend on Neptune, transforming the beaches and boardwalks into a frenzied, week-long rave. When a girl disappears from a party, Veronica is called in to investigate. But this is no simple missing person's case; the house the girl vanished from belongs to a man with serious criminal ties, and soon Veronica is plunged into a dangerous underworld of drugs and organized crime. And when a major break in the investigation has a shocking connection to Veronica's past, the case hits closer to home than she ever imagined.
