

City of Rose
Author: Rob Hart
Series: Ash McKenna #2
Narrator: Alexander Cendese
Unabridged: 6 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 11/28/2017
Author: Rob Hart
Series: Ash McKenna #2
Narrator: Alexander Cendese
Unabridged: 6 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 11/28/2017
Rob Hart is the author of four acclaimed previous Ash McKenna novels: NEW YORKED, CITY OF ROSE, SOUTH VILLAGE, and THE WOMAN FROM PRAGUE. His short stories have appeared in publications like Shotgun Honey, Thuglit, Needle, Helix Literary Magazine, and Joyland. He has received both a Derringer Award nomination and honorable mention in The Best American Mystery Stories 2015. His non-fiction articles have been featured at LitReactor, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Good Men Project, Birth.Movies.Death., the Powell's bookstore blog, and Nailed. He lives in New York City. Find him online at @robwhart and www.robwhart.com.
I'll say this: the first fifty page of this novel or so exploded in my face like a stick of TNT. Jesus, Rob Hart can write. Better than you most likely. Better than me too. His action scenes are lean and mean and seamlessly flowing into one another. The book slows down considerably afterwards and be......more
I liked Rob Hart's NEW YORKED a lot. I like this one even better. Ashley "Ash" McKenna, Hart's troubled knight-errant in a cheap straw cowboy hat, is a great character. In this installment, he's out of his native New York and definitely out of his element as he tries to leave behind his violent past......more
A lot of authors struggle when they get out of their setting comfort zone. Hart's NEW YORKED was such a perfect picture of the Big Apple, that when I saw CITY OF ROSE was set in Portland, I wondered how Hart would handle changing locales. The answer? Perfectly. Hart brings back his sorta PI Ash McKen......more
I really enjoyed NEW YORKED and had high expectations for this book. It surpassed them. CITY OF ROSE has everything that made NEW YORKED a fantastic read, but Hart stepped up his game in a big way. The plot is more focused and writing more refined, but still retains that off-kilter worldview that mad......more
In Rob Hart's followup to NEW YORKED, Ash McKenna leaves the Big Apple to escape his troubles. He longs to become more than the blunt instrument that he believes himself to be. He finds work at a vegan strip club with a double entendre for a name: "Naturals." One of the strippers asks him to find he......more