Skinflick, Joseph Hansen
Skinflick, Joseph Hansen
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Skinflick
A Dave Brandstetter Mystery

Author: Joseph Hansen

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Unabridged: 5 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/06/2019


Synopsis

Now working freelance, Dave Brandstetter digs into an evangelist’s secret life.His father’s death left Dave Brandstetter with a hole in his heart and an inheritance in his bank account. The money allowed him to venture out on his own, launching a freelance insurance investigation agency that specializes in suspicious deaths. His first case is potentially explosive, and if he isn’t careful, it could be his last.Crusading evangelist Gerald Dawson believes that piety and violence go hand-in-hand. To clean up his local skid row, he has taken to vigilante justice, ransacking pornography shops and intimidating their owners. When Gerald is found with his neck snapped, the police finger smut peddler Lon Tooker for the crime, but Dave disagrees. As he digs into the holy man’s nighttime activities, he finds a collection of sins that would make even the devil blush.

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

An enjoyable entry in the Brandstetter series. Dave's father has passed away, his relationship with Doug is virtually over, and he is now working for a new insurance company. The case: did the porn shop owner really murder the militant Christian activist who destroyed his shop? Dave thinks he did. T......more

Goodreads review by James

This is the fifth of Joseph Hansen's series featuring insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter, and it's among the best in the bunch. As the book opens, Dave is going through some significant changes in his life but, as with any good P.I., the job always comes first. Dave's company has insured the li......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