

Life's Work
Author: Jonathan Valin
Series: Harry Stoner Series #6
Narrator: Mark Peckham
Unabridged: 7 hr 59 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 11/01/2012
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Author: Jonathan Valin
Series: Harry Stoner Series #6
Narrator: Mark Peckham
Unabridged: 7 hr 59 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 11/01/2012
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Jonathan Valin is a mystery author best known for the Harry Stoner detective series. He won the Shamus Award for best mystery novel of 1989. After writing eleven Harry Stoner novels over a fourteen-year period, he took a break from mystery writing to help found Fi, a magazine of music criticism. He now works as an editor and reviewer for magazines.
Mark Peckham is an actor and director based in Rhode Island. In addition to working with Trinity Rep, Virginia Stage Co., and many Boston-area theaters, he was the voice of Joseph Smith in the award-winning PBS documentary American Prophet with Gregory Peck.
This sixth book in Valin’s Harry Stoner series is as good as the fifth, and the fifth is one of my favorite mystery novels of all time. In some ways it is very different from elder brother, for Life’s Work concerns a professional football in Cincinnati, whereas Natural Causes, the earlier book, deal......more
Great entry in this PI series set in Cincinnati. Harry Stoner is hired by the professional football team in Cincy to find one of their players who has gone AWOL from training camp. Excellent plot with well-rounded, realistic characters.......more
These just get better and better. True "hard boiled" stuff, with some unexpected twists. Hint for living a long life -- Don't sleep with Harry Stoner!......more
3* I liked this audiobook with its sports angle as well as all the action. It's heavy though, themes similar to many books I've listened to lately which have taken me into Ireland. This one gave me glimpses of a different group of people and I enjoyed that too.......more
Another Super Bowl-themed read is “Life’s Work” by Jonathan Valin. Valin created the 11-episode series featuring detective Harry Stoner. This is No. 6 in that series. This one’s set in the 1980’s era in Cincinnati. Harry is called in by the Cincinnati Cougars to investigate a missing person: their......more