Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Review: Herbie's Game by Timothy Hallinan

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A Mysterious Review of Herbie's Game by Timothy Hallinan. A Junior Bender Mystery.

Review summary: The fourth entry in this series is sadly missing a clever crime caper to show off the skills of its master burglar, and is, for the most part, a sequence of rather doleful conversations that lead to an introspective revelation. Not the best way to enjoy the talents of this most original character. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating: 3 of 5 stars

Herbie's Game Timothy Hallinan

Herbie's Game
Timothy Hallinan
A Junior Bender Mystery
Soho Crime (July 2014)

Publisher synopsis: It's everyday business when Wattles, the San Fernando Valley's top "executive crook," sets up a hit. He establishes a chain of criminals to pass along the instructions and the money, thereby ensuring that the hitter doesn't know who hired him. Then one day Wattles finds his office safe open and a single item missing: the piece of paper on which he has written the names of the crooks in the chain. When people associated with the chain begin to pop up dead, the only person Wattles can turn to to solve his problem is Junior Bender, professional burglar and begrudging private eye for crooks.

But Junior already knows exactly who took Wattles's list: the signature is too obvious. It was Herbie Mott, Junior's burglar mentor and second father — and when Junior seeks him out to discuss the missing list, he finds Herbie very unpleasantly murdered. Junior follows the links in the chain back toward the killer, and as he does, he learns disturbing things about Herbie's hidden past. He has to ask himself how much of the life he's lived for the past twenty years has been of his own making, and how much of it was actually Herbie's game.

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