Crashed, Timothy Hallinan
Crashed, Timothy Hallinan
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Crashed
A Junior Bender Mystery

Author: Timothy Hallinan

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 8 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/23/2012

Synopsis

Introducing Junior Bender, the favorite burglar turned private investigator of Hollywood crooks Junior Bender is a Los Angeles burglar with a magic touch. Since he first started breaking into houses at age fourteen, hes never once been caught. But now, after twenty-two years building an exemplary career, Junior has been blackmailed by Trey Annunziato, one of the most powerful crime bosses in LA, into acting as a private investigator on the set of Treys porn venture, which someone keeps sabotaging. The star Trey has lined up to do all thats unwholesome on camera is Thistle Downing, Americas beloved child star, who now lives alone in a drug-induced stupor, destitute and uninsurable. Her starring role will be the scandalous fall-from-grace gossip of rubberneckers across the country. No wonder Trey needs help keeping the production on track. Junior knows what he should dobut doing the right thing will land him on the wrong side of LAs scariest mob boss. With the help of his precocious twelve-year-old daughter, Rina, and his criminal sidekick,ex-getaway driverLouie the Lost, Junior will have to pull off a miracle to get out of this mess.

About Timothy Hallinan

Timothy Hallinan is the Edgar and Macavity Award–nominated author of over a dozen widely praised books, including the Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers and the Junior Bender series. In 2010 he conceived and edited an e-book of original short stories by twenty mystery writers, Shaken: Stories for Japan, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to Japanese disaster relief.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nancy

Career-burgler Junior Bender has picked up a gig from a "facilitator," whose client wants Junior to steal a Paul Klee painting from some people who are currently on vacation. She has provided the layout and other info Junior will need to know -- but what she doesn't know is that there's a video came......more

Goodreads review by Trish

”For most people who write thrillers and mysteries, creating crooks is more than half the fun. They’re intrinsically interesting because they’ve rejected the standard set of values and, since we all need values of some kind, they’ve invented their own. It was probably just a matter of time before I......more

Goodreads review by Jim

3.5 stars. A fun mystery thriller. There wasn't anything terribly profound about it, although the plight of the child star was heart-wrenching, but it was quite entertaining. Just the right mix of humor. It was well narrated & the publisher made each chapter an audio file, a real plus. I'll certainly......more

Goodreads review by Mike

My first book that I have read from Timothy Hallinan,but certainly not my last! Very enjoyable and entertaining. The reason I read this book is GoodReads! Another member mentioned his name in his review of Duane Lindsay's-Missing Amanda. This the reason that GR is my favorite web site.......more

Goodreads review by Lance

It's not something we think about very often, but it's pretty inevitable that villains will prey on other villains as well as on straights. By definition, the victim-villains can't go to the cops for help. What do they do? The answer in any number of other crime books is, they grab a gun and do thei......more

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