

A Hard Ticket Home
Author: David Housewright
Narrator: Brent Hinkley
Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 03/10/2020
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled
Author: David Housewright
Narrator: Brent Hinkley
Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 03/10/2020
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled
David Housewright is the author of mystery and detective novels, including the Holland Taylor series and the PI McKenzie mysteries. He has won the Edgar Award and is the three-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award for his crime fiction. He is a past president of the Private Eye Writers of America.
Brent Hinkley was born on April 12, 1962 in East Boston, Massachusetts. He is an actor, known for The Silence of the Lambs, Ed Wood, and Falling Down.
This book landed on my TBR list about a year ago because it is written by a Minnesotan and takes place in the Twin Cities area. It’s always fun to read a novel that is set in familiar territory. A couple of weeks ago I saw that the author would be participating in a five-author panel at my local lib......more
Faced with the possibility of having to turn in an embezzler and come away with nothing or leave the police department and collect a huge finders fee from the insurance company, St. Paul detective Rushmore MacKenzie chooses the latter. Now he works similar to Lawrence Block’s Scudder: he has no lice......more
First book in the Rushmore MacKenzie series tells the origin tale of our hero. Mac's bored, and decides to help an acquaintance find his daughter, who ran away from home seven years ago. It seems fairly straightforward, but within hours of starting the investigation, people start tying to kill Mac, a......more
Why 5 you ask? OMG let me tell you the ways. This is the very first in this series, with the first one coming out in 2004. Ah... the good old days , when dective stories were... well detective stories. Good stories , not a bunch of crap that is coming out today. Anyway-- this guy Mac was a police of......more
I needed another quick and easy read in between book club books, and this fit the bill. This is the first book in the series. I don't think it mattered too much that I had read the second one first. Again, I liked the quick pacing, the humor, and the local flavor. Too much violence to call it a "coz......more
“Sharp…Exciting.” Publishers Weekly
“Captivating.” Booklist