Very Bad Deaths, Spider Robinson
Very Bad Deaths, Spider Robinson
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Very Bad Deaths

Author: Spider Robinson

Narrator: Spider Robinson

Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/27/2005


Synopsis

The heartbroken recluse. . .The hardboiled cop. . .The walking wounded telepath. . .And the serial killer. Russell Walker retreats from the shock of his wifes death by becoming a hermit in the woods of British Columbia. There he finds himself thrust into a precarious role as intermediary between a telepath called Smellyso sensitive he cant stand to be near most peopleand Constable Nika, a skeptical police officer who needs Smellys insight to track down a monstrous serial killer.

About Spider Robinson

Spider Robinson
is renowned for his Callahan’s Place series of bestselling novels. With his late wife, Jeanne, he wrote the award-winning Stardance series. As an
audiobook reader of his own and others’ work, he has won the Earphones Award
and been a finalist for the Audie Awards. In 2008, he won the Robert A.
Heinlein Award for Lifetime Excellence in Literature.


Reviews

Goodreads review by M.M. Strawberry on October 14, 2022

Actual rating 3.5/5 stars. having read a good handful of Spider Robinson's writing, I really enjoy his writing style, even though a couple of his books were disappointing. This one... hmm. It wasn't among his best work, but it honestly isn't bad, which is why I gave it 3.5 stars. I really liked the s......more

Goodreads review by Jim on June 12, 2015

Robinson wowed me with Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, a collection of short stories, many years ago. Unfortunately, he hasn't done so since then. I occasionally try to find the magic, but it isn't there. Wasn't this time, either. An interesting, quite imaginative story, but he dragged it out way too l......more

Goodreads review by Angus on March 26, 2023

Think Silence of the Lambs, The Sixth Sense, and A Stir of Echoes. A columnist, a Constable Friendly, and a ghost try to capture a serial killer in Canada. Tons of dialogue, and therein, information dumps. Pretty good. A little more entertaining than average, but my socks are still on.......more

Goodreads review by Craig on July 29, 2014

Although he's an excellent writer, Robinson's work sometimes tends to suffer from such an over-abundance of syrupy-sweetness that it has to be taken in small doses. This novel, a crime-procedural, is something of a departure for him in that regard, and is enjoyable except for the plot depending on s......more