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Crashed
- A Junior Bender Mystery, Book 1
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Summary
Introducing Junior Bender, the favorite burglar turned private investigator of Hollywood crooks.
Junior Bender is a Los Angeles burglar with a magic touch. Since he first started breaking into houses at age fourteen, he's never once been caught. But now, after twenty-two years building an exemplary career, Junior has been blackmailed by Trey Annunziato, one of the most powerful crime bosses in LA, into acting as a private investigator on the set of Trey's porn venture, which someone keeps sabotaging. The star Trey has lined up to do all that's unwholesome on camera is Thistle Downing, America's beloved child star, who now lives alone in a drug-induced stupor, destitute and uninsurable. Her starring role will be the scandalous fall-from-grace gossip of rubberneckers across the country. No wonder Trey needs help keeping the production on track.
Junior knows what he should do - but doing the right thing will land him on the wrong side of LA's scariest mob boss. With the help of his precocious twelve-year-old daughter, Rina, and his criminal sidekick, ex-getaway driver Louie the Lost, Junior will have to pull off a miracle to get out of this mess.
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.
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- Niamh
- 18-12-23
Entertaining Hollywood intrigue
A comedy thriller in the style of Get Shorty etc. Enjoyable romp involving a stolen Klee painting, a washed up starlet, an honourable thief with an estranged wife and friends in low places, a corrupt cop and various other characters you will recognise. The narration works
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-07-22
what a gem
after so many bla bla free books this sudo 1950s but modern gangster book with the protagonist a bad boy with a good heart is just uplifting fun to listen to and just my cup of tea ... bring on dog walks so I can listen to what happens next .cant wait
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- Martin Gilje Jaatun
- 24-02-23
don't worry Bernie, Junior's got you covered
Fans of Lawrence Block's Bernie Rhodenbarr will enjoy this - Junior may have more of an inclination to violence, but the plot thickens nicely, and a good time is had by all.
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- Stephanie
- 15-06-22
Love Raymond Chandler? You'll love this.
Superb. The writing and observations are very witty but not overdone. Good plot. Enjoyable.
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- A.B.
- 30-01-23
Mostly entertaining, but story took a turn for the worse near the end
Entertaining but 3/4s of the way through the actions of the main character are no longer credible. You are supposed to believe a career criminal is also a saint… if you love fairy tales though, you may be delighted.
Narrator was very good though.
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- Olivia
- 14-10-22
Fab Neo-Noir
A must recommend for fans of the classic noir style, in a modern day setting. Good narration too, very easy listening. 5 stars!
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