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The Four Last Things
The Simeon Grist Mysteries (Book 2)
- Author
- Timothy Hallinan
- Narrator
- Keith Szarabajka
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 12 May 2015
- Run Time
- 10 hours
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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“Hallinan has a genuine ability to write effective prose, engaging repartee, [and] sharp and witty characterizations.”
Washington Post Book World
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“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
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“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
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“Smoothly plotted story, crisp dialogue, and excellent characterizations…The book never falters, sustaining suspense and interest throughout…a sure winner.”
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Details
- Author
- Timothy Hallinan
- Narrator
- Keith Szarabajka
- Duration
- 10 hours
- Release Date
- 12 May 2015
- ISBN
- 9781504607780
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
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.
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