Timothy Hallinan. Soho Crime, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61695-112-2
At the start of Edgar-finalist Hallinan’s heartrending, unforgettable fifth Poke Rafferty thriller (after 2010’s The Queen of Patpong), travel writer Rafferty collides with an overweight man around 65, possibly a German or American, on a wet Bangkok
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Timothy Hallinan. Soho Crime, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61695-277-8
Hallinan’s second Junior Bender mystery (after 2010’s Crashed) sends the L.A. burglar/PI on a journey into pop music’s supposedly innocuous 1950s past, mixing light and dark humor to enjoyable if uneven effect. Framed by LAPD Lt. Paulie DiGaudio for
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Timothy Hallinan. Soho Crime, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-64129-218-4
In Hallinan’s outstanding eighth novel starring burglar Junior Bender (after 2018’s Nighttown), L.A. mobster Irwin Dressler needs Bender to do him a favor. Dressler has invested money in a concert tour featuring obscure bands organized by “four of...
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Timothy Hallinan. Soho Crime, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-64129-123-1
Edgar finalist Hallinan’s disappointing ninth and last thriller set in Thailand and featuring expat American writer Poke Rafferty (after 2017’s Fools’ River) finally addresses how Miaow, Poke’s adopted daughter, came to be abandoned and tied to a...
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Timothy Hallinan. Soho Crime, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-61695-748-3
Edgar finalist Hallinan’s suspenseful, well-crafted seventh Junior Bender mystery (after 2016’s Fields Where They Lay) finds the L.A. burglar/investigator, who has worked on the wrong side of the law for more than 20 years, desperate for money to...
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Timothy Hallinan. Soho Crime, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-61695-750-6
At one point in Hallinan’s outstanding eighth thriller set in Bangkok and featuring American expat Poke Rafferty (after 2015’s The Hot Countries), Rose, Poke’s Thai wife, muses, “People never knew until it was too late... whether the place where...
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Timothy Hallinan. Soho Crime, $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-61695-746-9
Edgar-finalist Hallinan deserves to win an Edgar for his ingeniously plotted, often hilarious sixth Junior Bender novel (after King Maybe). Junior, a thief who has “probably stolen more things than most people own,” owes a favor to a San Fernando...
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Timothy Hallinan. Soho Crime, $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-61695-432-1
In Edgar-finalist Hallinan’s darkly comic fifth Junior Bender mystery (after 2014’s Herbie’s Game), the endearing Los Angeles burglar is faced with his biggest existential crisis yet. His enigmatic girlfriend, Ronnie Bigelow, has left him; a...
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Timothy Hallinan. Soho Crime, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61695-446-8
Edgar-finalist Hallinan’s lukewarm conclusion to the trilogy within his Poke Rafferty series finds travel writer Poke enjoying a spell of peaceful domesticity—his wife, Rose, pregnant; his adopted daughter, Miaow, rehearsing for a school play; his...
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Timothy Hallinan. Soho Crime, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61695-114-6
In Hallinan’s engaging sixth thriller set in Bangkok and featuring American journalist Poke Rafferty (after 2012’s The Fear Artist), Rafferty’s adopted 13-year-old daughter, Miaow, and her 13-year-old boyfriend, Andrew Nguyen, purchase a used iPhone
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Timothy Hallinan. Soho Crime, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-61695-429-1
Junior Bender takes on his most personal case yet in Hallinan’s rollicking fourth mystery featuring the master safe—and joke—cracker (after 2013’s The Fame Thief). When Wattles, a notorious crook based in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley, realizes that he’
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Timothy Hallinan. Soho Crime, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61695-280-8
In Hallinan’s satisfying third Junior Bender novel (after Little Elvises), the L.A. burglar/PI continues to excavate show business’s forgotten past, investigating in this installment the also-rans of postwar Hollywood. Dolores La Marr’s ascent to...
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Timothy Hallinan, Author Morrow $24.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-06-125580-9
Brutal torture and equally brutal empathy define this excellent, if sometimes familiar, thriller from Hallinan (The Bone Polisher
). Poke Rafferty, a travel writer turned detective, intends to settle down in Bangkok with his ex-prostitute girlfriend,
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Timothy Hallinan, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (305p) ISBN 978-0-688-10345-3
Hallinan (The Man with No Time) shifts between cute and scary in the latest case he sets for L.A. shamus Simeon Grist, embroiled here in the search for a serial killer who preys on gay men. Simeon, decidely heterosexual, is close to tying the knot...
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Timothy Hallinan, Author Avon Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71370-7
Tiresome hero and narrator Simeon Grist duels with a homicidal pyromaniac, while willfully alienating his lady love, his best friend and the LAPD. (Mar.)
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Timothy Hallinan, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (304p) ISBN 978-0-688-10344-6
The trail of two missing Chinese children shouldn't lead to a slave market, and Simeon Grist should still be languishing somewhere in academia, not sleuthing his way through Los Angeles. Blunt wit and copious running gags have fueled this first-rate
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Timothy Hallinan, Author William Morrow & Company $19 (268p) ISBN 978-0-688-10343-9
Hero/narrator Simeon Grist ( The Four Last Things ) has become tiresome. Here he willfully alienates his lady love, his best friend and the L.A. cops, while his macho posturing in a deadly duel with a homicidal pyromaniac almost gets him killed....
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Timothy Hallinan, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-24978-8
Los Angeles private detective Simeon Grist, seen before in The Four Last Things , stumbles through the smoke-and-mirrors world of television production in his third case. After stopping popular TV series star Toby Vane from beating up his date, Nana,
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Timothy Hallinan, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-453-00694-1
Simeon Grist, seen before in The Four Last Things , is an up-to-date private eye, a hip survivor of the Woodstock Generation bemused by current L.A. life. He's also a bit seedy, drinking too much and backsliding into cigarette smoking, with a wry...
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Timothy Hallinan, Author Dutton Books $16.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-453-00650-7
Simeon Grist, former professor of English at UCLA and fledgling L.A. private eye, makes his debut in this clever mystery. To propel his plot, Hallinan adroitly depicts a new religion with avaricious leaders, New Age channeling and an overlay of...
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Timothy Hallinan, Morrow, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-167226-2
Hallinan's compassionate fourth Poke Rafferty thriller (after Breathing Water) finds Poke and his live-in girlfriend, Rose, finally married, but a specter from Rose's past as a dancer on Bangkok's notorious Patpong Road comes back to haunt her. As a
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Timothy Hallinan, Author . Morrow $24.99 (346p) ISBN 978-0-06-167223-1
In Hallinan’s nicely paced third Bangkok thriller to feature writer Poke Rafferty (after The Fourth Water
), Poke wins a bet to write the biography of Khun Pan, a major-league bad guy, after a dispute with Pan in a poker game. When local...
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Timothy Hallinan, Author . Morrow $24.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-06-125725-4
In Hallinan's stellar sequel to A Nail Through the Heart
, travel writer and sometime detective Poke Rafferty is researching the dangerous side of Bangkok for a book when he, his ex-prostitute girlfriend, Rose, and their adopted daughter, Miaow,
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Timothy Hallinan, read by Peter Berkrot. Blackstone Audio, , unabridged, 9 CDs, 10.5 hrs., $34.95 ISBN 978-1-5047-5695-2
Hallinan’s sixth addition to his chronicles of likable professional thief Junior Bender takes place just before Christmas, but it’s a merry present to be opened at any time of the year. Reader Berkrot’s tough-but-smart delivery once again proves a...
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