Gravedigger
A Dave Brandstetter Mystery

Name: Gravedigger
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Joseph Hansen
ISBN: 9781982690519

Author: Joseph Hansen

Series: Dave Brandstetter Mysteries #1

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Unabridged: 5 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 09/03/2019

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

A runaway girl leads Dave Brandstetter to confront a California sex cult.Serenity ran away from home when her father was convicted of bribery. For two years, she drifted around the American Southwest, finally finding refuge in the arms of Azrael, a charismatic cult leader whose religion was founded upon blood. Long after Serenity’s disappearance, the police find a mass grave containing six dead girls on Azrael’s property. Thinking his daughter has been murdered, Serenity’s father claims her life insurance, and promptly disappears. Now it’s Dave Brandstetter’s problem.An insurance investigator with a keen eye and a skeptical mind, Dave is no stranger to savagery. But his trip to the high-priced suburbs of Los Angeles will teach him something new about the depths of human cruelty—and Azrael’s mass grave is only the beginning.

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

This sixth book in the Dave Brandstetter series is the best yet. The gay milieu and Southern California atmosphere is superb as usual, but this time, instead hiding the solution of his mystery underneath a myriad of red herrings, Hansen constructs a denouement at once so surprising and so persuasive......more

Goodreads review by James

First published in 1982, this is the sixth entry in Joseph Hansen's series featuring Dave Brandstetter, the first openly gay detective to inhabit the world originally occupied by Philip Marlowe and other such giants of the P.I. genre. Dave is now working for the Banner Insurance Company. A young woma......more

Goodreads review by LenaRibka

4,5 stars. Gravedigger is the sixth book in the Dave Brandstetter series and I think I can talk about a common schema of the Dave Brandsttetter mystery: *At the beginning our insurance investigator appears at the door/porch of a person who filed an insurance claim. * Something doesn't fit, it is why......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