Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Telemystery News: NBC Developing Tim Hallinan's Junior Bender Mysteries for Television

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The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that NBC has given a script commitment to develop the Junior Bender series of comedic crime novels by Timothy Hallinan for television.

Introduced in the 2010, Junior Bender is a high-end thief. He's also the go-to guy in Los Angeles when criminals who can't — or won't — go to the police and need something investigated. Read more about the first book in the series, Crashed, below.

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Crashed by Timothy Hallinan

Junior Bender is a Los Angeles burglar with a magic touch. Since he first started breaking into houses when he was fourteen years old, he's never once been caught. But now, after twenty-two years of 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 movie 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 rubber-neckers across the country. No wonder Trey needs help keeping the production on track.

Junior knows what that he should do — get Thistle out and find her help — 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, Louie the Lost (an ex-getaway driver), Junior has to figure out a miracle solution.

Read our review of Crashed on Mysterious Reviews.

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