The Four Last Things, Timothy Hallinan
The Four Last Things, Timothy Hallinan
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The Four Last Things

Author: Timothy Hallinan

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Unabridged: 10 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/12/2015

Synopsis

Edgar Award finalist Timothy Hallinan continues his six-book Simeon Grist series with this white-knuckle mystery—a must-listen for fans of Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels.Simeon Grist knows LA inside and out—the sex for sale, the chic seductions, every rip-off from City Hall to Venice. So when he's hired by a Hollywood recording company to shadow one Sally Oldfield, suspected of embezzlement, Grist discovers she's entangled in the Church of the Eternal Moment—a million-dollar religious scam built around a twelve-year-old channeler and the voice of a man who has been dead for a millennium. When Sally turns up dead, Simeon knows he's become the next target of a very flesh-and-blood entity waiting in the back alleys of sin and salvation to give him a brutal look at the four last things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell—revelations he could definitely live without.

About Timothy Hallinan

Timothy Hallinan is the Edgar and Macavity Award–nominated author of over a dozen widely praised books, including the Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers and the Junior Bender series. In 2010 he conceived and edited an e-book of original short stories by twenty mystery writers, Shaken: Stories for Japan, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to Japanese disaster relief.

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 Wyckliffe

The first of his Simeon Grist series, I was looking forward to it. Hallinan can write, but his Thai series (Poke Rafferty) I love, as well as his Junior Bender series. So, having read all the PR novels, I opened this one with optimism. It was good, and I'll seek out the next. Lots of twists and turn......more

Goodreads review by Nigel

Simeon Grist is a Private Eye operating in the colourful world of California. He has a need to protect the vulnerable and a quick sharp wit that he uses at every opportunity. How’s this for a description of a rainstorm? ‘Everybody was standing in doorways looking like bums, except for the real bums,......more

Goodreads review by Carol

Tightly plotted and cleverly written, with a real "coffee out the nose" finale! Lots of fun!......more

Goodreads review by Jim Di Silvio

I’m a big fan of Timothy Hallinan’s other character thief turned detective Junior Bender but with Simeon Grist I just couldn’t like it. The writing was very fluid and all over the place. I lost interest and I’m a big detective fan. It almost seemed like 2 different people write the books. Anyway, gi......more

Quotes

“Hallinan has a genuine ability to write effective prose, engaging repartee, [and] sharp and witty characterizations.” Washington Post Book World

“Terrific, well-crafted, thoroughly satisfying…updates Raymond Chandler’s vision of life in Los Angeles through Grist’s sardonic, often hilarious observations…leaves one looking forward to Hallinan’s future endeavors.” Los Angeles Herald-Tribune

“Simeon Grist, former professor of English at UCLA and fledgling LA private eye, makes his debut in this clever mystery…Televangelism, brainwashing, research into the early nineteenth-century diaspora of new American religions, and a most unusual ally lead Grist to the denouement of this very satisfying mystery.” Publishers Weekly

“Smoothly plotted story, crisp dialogue, and excellent characterizations…The book never falters, sustaining suspense and interest throughout…a sure winner.” Booklist

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