Death Claims, Joseph Hansen
Death Claims, Joseph Hansen
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Death Claims
A Dave Brandstetter Mystery

Author: Joseph Hansen

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Unabridged: 5 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/04/2019

Synopsis

Death Claims is the second in Joseph Hansen’s acclaimed mystery series featuring the ruggedly masculine Dave Brandstetter, a gay insurance investigator.When John Oats’s body is found washed up on a beach, his young lover April Stannard is sure it was no accident. Brandstetter agrees: Oats’s college-age son, the beneficiary of the life insurance policy, has gone missing.

About Joseph Hansen

Joseph Hansen (1923–2004) was the author of more than twenty-five novels and was a renowned short-story writer. The winner of the 1992 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, he was also the author of A Smile in His Lifetime, Living Upstairs, Job’s Year, and Bohannon’s Country.

About Keith Szarabajka

Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins’s Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

Insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter has his doubts about the death of John Oats. True, the retired book dealer was dying of cancer, but good swimmers don't usually drown themselves close to the shore. And then of course there's the fact that Oats changed the beneficiary of his life insurance po......more

Goodreads review by jay

welcome to 202-Queer 🌈✨ emotionless and boring. the plot of these books is honestly the worst. the writing is also weird, it's kinda choppy, the dialogue ... - people don't talk like that. but then sometimes there's lines of Dave's internal monologue. him thinking about his lovers past and present an......more

Goodreads review by Mark

Death Claims the second book of the Dave Brandstetter series by Joseph Hansen was a real battle. I was very close to giving this 1-Star, but I was sufficiently interested to discover who the murderer was, so I finished it, but I almost bailed. Our homosexual Insurance Investigator, Dave Brandstetter......more

Quotes

“Hansen is the most exciting and effective writer of the classic private-eye novel working today.” Los Angeles Times, praise for the author

“Characters with real stuffing in them.” Ellery Queen, praise for the series

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