The Bad Kitty Lounge, Michael Wiley
The Bad Kitty Lounge, Michael Wiley
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The Bad Kitty Lounge
The Joseph Kozmarski Series, Book 2

Author: Michael Wiley

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 7 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/07/2011

Synopsis

Michael Wileys first novel, The Last Striptease, was nominated for a Shamus Award and hailed as riveting (Chicago Tribune), delightful (Toronto Globe and Mail), and hardboiled fiction with tenderness and compassion (New York Newsday). Now he offers another exciting, fastpaced pageturner with The Bad Kitty Lounge. Greg Samuelson, an unassuming bookkeeper, hired Joe Kozmarski to dig up dirt on his wife and her lover, Eric Stone. But now Samuelson has taken matters into his own hands. It looks like hes torched Stones Mercedes, killed his boss, and then shot himself, all in the space of an hour.The police think they know how to put together this ugly puzzle. But as Kozmarski discovers, nothings ever simple. Eric Stone wants to hire Kozmarski to clear Samuelson. Samuelsons dead boss, known as the Virginity Nun, has a saintly reputation but a redhot past. And a gang led by an aging 1960s radical shows up in Kozmarskis office with a backpack full of payoff money, warning him to turn a blind eye to murder. At the same time, Kozmarski is working things out with his exwife, Corrine, his new partner, Lucinda Juarez, and his livein nephew, Jason. If the bad guys dont do Kozmarski in, his family might.

About Michael Wiley

Michael Wiley was brought up in Chicago, and now teaches literature at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. In addition to the Sam Kelson mystery series, he is the Shamus Award-winning author of the Chicago-based Joe Kozmarski PI series, as well as the Daniel Turner and the Franky Dast series. His Franky Dast thriller, Monument Road, was nominated for the 2018 Shamus Best PI Novel award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

Again I seem to have started a series with the second book, as I did the one before this. I don't know what's up with my library not having the first books of series, but it is a bit frustrating. The author seems to have done a decent job filling me in on the first novel without boring anyone who ha......more

Goodreads review by Ridel

We Have the Technology The Bad Kitty Lounge is less a sequel than a rewrite. As demanded by the Film Noir genre, Joe Kozmarski hasn’t changed: his terrible professional life is only exceeded by his neglected personal one. The private eye is such a mess that it’s surprising he solves mysteries bef......more

Goodreads review by Kathy

This author is new to me. The book features Chicago's crime side - believable and fast-paced with a large dollop of violent acts. The private detective Joe Kozmarski has his personal struggles to deal with while untangling what is really at the bottom of fires and murders connected to a multi-millio......more

Goodreads review by Giovanni

Hey, another day another post. The biggest mystery to me once I got a groove on this novel was why I didn’t know this was Wiley’s second offering. I totally missed the boat on the first novel in this series The Last Striptease. That novel won the PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Competition and was......more

Goodreads review by Hilary

THE BAD KITTY LOUNGE got its claws into me from the first line, which is the best I've read in a while: "I sat in Tommy Cheng's Chinese Restaurant facing a window onto North LaSalle Street and watched a four-story condo complex where Eric Stone was screwing another man's wife." Loved this book from......more

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