Everybody Goes to Jimmy's
A Suspense Novel

Move over Dashiell Hammett, and meet you successor – Michael Mayo’s Depression speakeasy owner, Jimmy Quinn, tells his own story, a story so convoluted and made crazier by a dizzy dame with many faces, Nazis on the move to grab some cash, real life gangsters made more real in Mayo’s Jimmy Quinn’s wo......more

I love prohibition-era crime and this book really captures that period in time with the plot revolving around Jimmy Quinn, the owner of a speakeasy profiteering off the sale of illegal alcohol. Author Michael Mayo's New York is brimming with corrupt cops, gangsters, and femme fatales - all of whom f......more

This second in the Jimmy Quinn series (I mistakenly thought it was the first) is billed as a suspense novel but, with its circa 1930 Manhattan speakeasy setting, it seemed more a mild sort of hard-boiled mystery to me. I did enjoy it though and do plan to read more of the series at some time. 3½ stars......more

This is a fabulous sequel to a first-rate first novel. I loved Mayo's first novel, Jimmy the Stick. I was blown away to realize it was his first work of fiction. The historical detail puts the reader right in the middle of Prohibition-Era Manhattan. Jimmy's character is so realistic. He's got that c......more

So many interesting characters and branches to this story. At times it's hard to keep them all straight. It took me 3/4 of the book to begin figuring it out in earnest. It is a fun little mystery with lots of action. Mobsters, Nazis, bootleggers, Indians and cops in a story set in New York City!......more