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Bezig met laden... Fields Where They Lay (A Junior Bender Mystery) (2016)door Timothy Hallinan
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A very different kind of holiday story involving a master thief who is coerced by a Russian investor into investigating an uptick in shoplifting at a failing shopping mall during Christmas. Junior Bender is a thief but he has principles. He also has a complicated personal life - divorced with a daughter and dating a woman who is even more secretive about her past than he is. Junior enlists the help of mall employees and fellow criminals to figure out just what the heck is going on at the Edgerton mall. Definitely not a cozy holiday mystery due to a good amount of profanity, but a welcome addition to the holiday mystery genre with a real mystery with likable but flawed characters, humor, and ruminations on the meaning of Christmas. Not five stars only because the author sometimes tries to be too cool with some of the dialogue and ends up being confusing instead. ( ) This is a fluff book, the literary equivalent of a Twinkie, but some of us like a little junk food in our diets. And I like Junior Bender, one of those “criminals with a heart of gold” kind of guys. So there are lots of good bad guys, bad bad guys, a good Santa, a bad Santa, murder, mayhem, and way too much time lingering in a mall. The book was a bit longer than I like for fluff, but it is a quick read, and was fun to read during the Christmas season. I'll probably keep reading the Junior Bender series, the heck with my literary diet. It takes a thief to find a thief, in this case, it takes Junior Bender. Offered a deal to catch shoplifters in a mall at Christmastime, he can’t refuse the job, if he wants to keep his daughter safe. It takes Junior some legwork and brainwork to unravel the scheme, but, being Junior, he won’t stop until he gets to the bottom of things. This novel is a bit disjointed with war flashbacks, but still, an interesting case. Amongst the enlightening legends and lore of shopping malls, Timothy Hallinan peoples Fields Where They Lay (as he usually does) with a first-rate cast of characters. Junior is a thief with a heart of gold. A man who stumbled into investigating cases for various Los Angeles area bad guys, and now couldn't stumble his way back out no matter how hard he tried. (It's LA's organized crime version of type casting.) Junior gets along with his ex-wife, adores his teenage daughter, and has fallen totally for Ronnie, a woman with a past she refuses to talk about. Along with the series regulars, readers can get to enjoy the denizens of Edgerton Mall, like Shlomo, one of the mall's two Santas, and Bonnie, a store owner who's never met a porcelain figurine she didn't like. Woven into the tapestry of characters and interactions, there's Junior's dislike of Christmas-- and why he feels that way. There's a lot of shady goings-on in that decrepit mall, and it's fun to watch Junior sort through it all. He's the absolute best character I know when it comes to thinking on your feet in dangerous situations. This man is a master at hiding and nano-second escapes. Love it! Is Junior going to figure out what's going on at Edgerton Mall? Is he going to be successful in carrying out a small job for Santa Shlomo (my favorite part of the book)? Will he get his Christmas shopping done? Can he avoid a personal crisis with Ronnie? How's Junior going to survive Christmas Eve at the Edgerton Mall? You're going to love finding out! geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Junior Bender (6)
"It's the week before Christmas in Tinsel Town, and the Edgerton Mall isn't exactly full of holiday cheer, despite its two Santas. The mall is a fossil of an industry in decline; many of its stores are closed, and to make matters worse, there is a rampant shoplifting problem. Enter burglar Junior Bender, the unwilling fixer for LA's various underworld bosses. The murderous Russian gangster who owns the mall hires Junior to look into the shoplifting problem for him. But Junior's surveillance operation doesn't go well: within two days, two people are dead. It's obvious that shoplifting is the least of the mall's problems. Meanwhile, Junior must confront his own deep-seated melancholy at the very notion of Christmas--both present and past"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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