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

Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 8 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/27/2003


Synopsis

Stuart M. Kaminsky, the veteran author of more than forty novels and the creator of such wonderful characters as Abe Lieberman, Toby Peters, and Inpsector Rostnikov, has created a new PI: Lew Fonesca, a world-weary guy who got in a car and just started driving after his wife died and wound up in front of a Dairy Queen in Sarasota, Florida.

He now makes his way amid bail jumpers and lost wives, people who want to be found and those who will do anything to stay under their rock. He spends his days solving cases both big and small and trying to get by, while attempting to figure out how to make the rest of his life make sense.

Retribution not only picks up where the first novel in the series, Vengeance, left off, but raises the bar big-time. Lew has solved his share of cases, and most of them-to his pride-have wound up having happy endings; in Vengeance, he saved a young runaway who has had a childhood nobody should ever have, and she finally seems to be turning her life around. But when she becomes involved with a reclusive best-selling author and several valuable manuscripts disappear, Lew knows that young Melanie is in way over her head. And if he doesn't act fast, not only could a few reputations get tarnished--the bodies might start piling up.

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rowena

This is the first of Kaminsky's books set in the USA which I've encountered. I'm a huge fan of his Rostnikov novels, but hadn't tried any of his others. Turned out to be excellent. A tightly plotted PI investigation with plenty of soul and solid characterisation. Far less flabby than most modern bloc......more

Goodreads review by Michael

Words I thought I'd never write: "I'm beginning to enjoy this series of mysteries about a process server". Yet here I am, growing in my admiration for the long-suffering hero of Stuart Kaminsky's series, Lew Fonesca. You see, Lew ran away from his Chicago past when his wife died in a car accident, l......more

Goodreads review by Mike

I looked forward to this, hoping it would measure up to Kaminsky's engaging Rostnikov novels. It didn't. I guess Kaminsky has been writing too much, and has simply burned out. Or maybe he's resorted to ghost writers who churn out novels under his name. I don't know, but the fact of disappointment re......more

Goodreads review by Dave

I liked everything about this from the characters, a depressed process server protagonist (first person point of view) to the jerk of a 60's recluse author, to the setting, often behind the Dairy Queen. The subplot second mystery that was shoved in here just brings it down some.......more

Goodreads review by David

Good second book overall. I especially liked the exposition, but the mystery was a bit mediocre compared to the first book in this series.......more