Denial, Stuart M. Kaminsky
Denial, Stuart M. Kaminsky
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Denial
A Lew Fonesca Novel

Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 8 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/28/2005


Synopsis

Lew Fonseca is a man who does things for people. He makes small problems go away and tries to keep the larger ones from landing his clients in jail. He finds deadbeats, errant spouses, and generally keeps the populace of Sarasota on the up-and-up.

New Lew is faced with one case that will try his patience…and another that may break his heart.

The first involves an elderly woman who swears she's witnessed a murder in her old-age home despite the fact that everyone she tells her story to–her family, the hospital staff, and finally the cops–all tell her that it just couldn't have happened.

The other has Lew trying to find out the identity of a hit-and-run driver who killed a fourteen-year-old boy. This task dredges up old memories and a lot of pain, for Lew fled Chicago years ago, after a drunk driver killed his beloved wife.

As Lew begins to dig deeper into both cases, he finds that they are tied together in ways he can't hope to untangle.

And when someone tries to run him down, Lew knows that he's getting close to some nasty home truths and he is going to have to get the answers if he is to survive.

About The Author

Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934–2009) was one of the most prolific crime fiction authors of the last four decades. Born in Chicago, he spent his youth immersed in pulp fiction and classic cinema—two forms of popular entertainment which he would make his life’s work. After college and a stint in the army, Kaminsky wrote film criticism and biographies of the great actors and directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age. In 1977, when a planned biography of Charlton Heston fell through, Kaminsky wrote Bullet for a Star, his first Toby Peters novel, beginning a fiction career that would last the rest of his life.Kaminsky penned twenty-four novels starring the detective, whom he described as “the anti-Philip Marlowe.” In 1981’s Death of a Dissident, Kaminsky debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction of Soviet life. His other two series starred Abe Lieberman, a hardened Chicago cop, and Lew Fonseca, a process server. In all, Kaminsky wrote more than sixty novels. He died in St. Louis in 2009.Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. His stage appearances throughout the US include CyranoHamlet, and MacBeth. In the audio industry, Scott has won over 20 Earphones Awards, as well as the 2003 Audie Award in the Best Science Fiction category for Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. After recording nearly 250 books in five years, AudioFile Magazine named Scott “one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy” and proclaimed him one of their Golden Voices. Brick’s range is unparalleled as he reads thrillers to narrative nonfiction, from biographies to science fiction with aplomb.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael

Stuart Kaminsky's Lew Fonesca character is like the anti-Robert Crais' Elvis Cole: perpetually depressed, humorless, physically unimposing, no certifications, residing in a dumpy spot in Florida. What he does have, though, is a talent for finding and helping people using unconventional means and he......more

Goodreads review by Dave

Just no weakness here, a first class murder mystery.......more

Goodreads review by Jay

Denial A Lew Fonesca Novel by Stuart M. Kaminsky Book Review by Jay Gilbertson Sometimes a good book is a lot like a delicious treat, you have a bite and before you know what happened—poof—you’re reading the last sentence. “Denial” is just such a story, short on fancy details, no clever writing techn......more


Awards

  • AudioFile Earphones Award