Everything but the Squeal, Timothy Hallinan
Everything but the Squeal, Timothy Hallinan
List: $19.95 | Sale: $13.97
Club: $9.97

Everything but the Squeal

Author: Timothy Hallinan

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Unabridged: 10 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/02/2015

Synopsis

Robert B. Parker and Robert Crais fans will enjoy Edgar Award nominee Timothy Hallinan's novels featuring overeducated private eye Simeon Grist. In this third book in the cult series, Grist takes a case that leads him to the phantom neighborhoods of Los Angeles' lost children.Missing thirteen-year-old Aimee Sorrell ran all the way from Kansas to be a star. But Aimee's trail soon leads Simeon to the city morgue, the first stop on a perilous journey to find out what happens to America's lost children when they go looking for love in all the wrong places.

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.

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 Wyckliffe on November 26, 2018

The second in the Simeon Grist series, our career student turned detective is hired to find a missing thirteen year old girl. She ran away from home to LA to become a star. Where is she and what happened to her? Her mother receives photos of her, naked and beat up. This novel looks into the dark wor......more

Goodreads review by Pamela on August 24, 2014

Not as good as Last Four Things. Definitely not as good as any one of the Junior Bender books. The story was there. The characters were there. The observations were there. But the spark was missing. The fizz was missing. Guess you can say it was a typical sophomore effort. I will hang around for the......more

Goodreads review by Laura on February 28, 2021

I’m a Hallinan fan and so was curious, although cautious, about this early novel. It’s not un-readable and you can certainly see that there’s something there. A decent enough idea and some complicated and interesting characters but. BUT. It’s wildly grim and I read a lot of this stuff. This is quite......more

Goodreads review by Glen on June 13, 2017

"Everything but the Squeal" is Hallinan's third entry into the Simeon Grist series. A hard boiled crusader of right, Simeon is a precursor to the likes of Lee Child's Jack Reacher. Wise cracking and tough, Simeon takes us into the sordid and disgusting world of child prostitution in this story. A we......more

Goodreads review by Ron on December 26, 2018

Another early, hard-boiled LA-centric PI novel from Hallinan. All the requisite quips and plotting are there. This one, focusing on child prostitution is darker and grimmer than most but does have some humorous moments. Set in the '90s, some cultural references (especially Simeon's struggle with DOS......more

Quotes

“Squeal combines high-octane action, baroque violence, humor, and pathos in a self-assured manner that marks Mr. Hallinan as a capable practitioner of the private-eye tale.” Wall Street Journal

“A grimly authentic portrait of LA’s sordid subculture.” San Diego Union

“Get a copy of Everything but the Squeal, but be prepared to shut off the phone or fax machine; you won’t want to brook any interruptions once you start it.” Tom Hatten, KNX Radio, Los Angeles

“Hallinan employs skillful pacing, LA color, and Simeon’s attractive persona to grip readers.” Publishers Weekly

“Treat[s] a grimly fascinating subject matter and location with sharp-voiced style and verve.” Library Journal

“Hallinan once again supplies a riveting story, and Grist continues to be one of the most intriguing of the new private eyes.” Booklist

“A kiddie-porn second case for LA private eye Simeon Grist finds him staking out the Oki-Burger hangout as he looks for thirteen-year-old runaway Aimee Sorrell. Grist borrows Jessica, the savvy teen-age daughter of his good friends Annie and Wyatt, to use as bait…Fast-paced action, with grim views of runaway exploiters and their physically abused prey. Jessica and Grist, meanwhile, make for a nonstereotypical sleuthing duo.” Kirkus Reviews

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List