Josh Bazell, Author . Little, Brown $24.99 (310p) ISBN 978-0-316-03222-3
Making a hit man turned medical intern a sympathetic figure would be a tall order for most authors, but first-time novelist Bazell makes it look easy in this breezy and darkly comic suspense novel. The Locanos, a mob family, take in 14-year-old...
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Josh Bazell. Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur, $25.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-316-03219-3
Carl Hiaasen fans will relish Bazell’s frenetic sequel to 2009’s Beat the Reaper. Professor Marmoset, the guardian angel who got retired mob hit man Pietro Brnwa into the federal witness protection program, sends him to Portland, Ore., on a highly...
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Josh Bazell, Author, Robert Petkoff, Read by , read by Robert Petkoff. Hachette Audio $29.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-432-2
Crackling dialogue and rich characters distinguish Bazell’s debut thriller. Dr. Peter Brown is living a double life and one of his patients may have uncovered the doctor’s secret. Brown was formerly Pietro Brnwa, a vicious mob hit man...
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Josh Bazell, read by Robert Petkoff and Stephanie Wolfe. Hachette Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 9 hrs., $26.98 ISBN 978-1-61113-983-9
Bazell’s Beat the Reaper introduced readers to the cheerfully sadistic dentist and former mob hit man Dr. Peter Brown, aka Pietro Brnwa. This follow-up finds Brown—teamed with femme fatale paleontologist Dr. Violet Hurst—working as a cruise ship...
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