
Dead Anyway
Author: Chris Knopf
Narrator: Donald Corren
Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 09/15/2012
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Author: Chris Knopf
Narrator: Donald Corren
Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 09/15/2012
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Chris Knopf’s mystery novels have received exceptional awards and accolades, with critics likening his character Sam Aquillo to Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade, Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, and Robert B. Parker’s Spenser, while repeatedly comparing Knopf’s work to that of Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, and Ross Macdonald. Two Time was one of thirteen mysteries listed as recommended summer reading in the New York Times Book Review, and Publishers Weekly chose it as one of the “Best 100 Books for 2006.†Head Wounds won the 2008 Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Mystery. Dead Anyway was listed on the 2012 Best Fiction lists of both Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. Knopf is a sailor, cabinetmaker, and advertising executive in Connecticut. He and his wife Mary also spend considerable time at their Long Island home in Southampton.
In this mystery Arthur Cathcart - a market researcher who loves his beautiful, successful wife - has his life torn apart by a sudden act of violence. Determined to find out who's responsible he hatches an elaborate scheme filled with false identities, complex business dealings, thugs and gangsters,......more
Excellent reader, superb story, although one key bit of motivation was missing & this leaves a cliff hanger. (view spoiler)[ Why did Florencia steal from her own company? (hide spoiler)] This does give the author room to expand to another book, but this was originally written in 2005 & he has written other books & at least one se......more
With apologies to Chris Knopf, I'm going to qualify my rating by pointing out that I rated based on other novels of this genre, not based on all literature. So, let's assume that if you're reading this review that you're not looking for a book that is about to be short listed for the Pulitzer. (Apol......more
We meet Arthur who has a seemingly perfect life and then the next thing he knows he’s hiding from the bad guy that blew his world away by shooting Arthur and his wife. Arthur slowly recovers but revenge is always in the forefront in his mind. This is a new feeling and want for Arthur and he puts it......more
Dead Anyway opens with protagonist Arthur Cathcart enjoying an ordinary day as his beautiful wife goes out to work and he gets on with research on the computer. Not just a computer nerd, Arthur’s the sort of quiet private investigator who verifies data for toothpaste marketers, finds missing heirs,......more