E-audiobook
Fever a Nameless Detective novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780792755838 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 0792755839 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [North Kingstown, RI] : BBC Audiobooks America, 2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 7:10:02. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Nick Sullivan. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 102996 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Mystery fiction. Audiobooks. |
Electronic resources
- AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Web Reviews
Having narrated a considerable number of "Nameless Detective" novels, you'd expect veteran Nick Sullivan to get it down pat. While Sullivan delivers an adequate performance in this latest, his reading falls short of expectations. Nameless and his crew, Tamara and Jake, are called in to find a woman with a gambling addiction who has disappeared. Finding her is easy--Nameless finds her twice--then she disappears for good, and foul play is suspected, possibly by the woman's husband, who hired the detectives in the first place. When the search is launched again, something besides the missing woman is uncovered. Sullivan's announcer-like voice gets your attention, but there's little variation in his pace or his characters. You can be listening one moment, lost the next. A.L.H. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine - Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2008 May #1
Pronzini's Nameless Detective and his San Francisco investigative agency have survived for more than three decades because of a never-ending supply of people who screw up their lives. Nameless used to operate alone but now runs an agency with the varied talents (and narrative points of view) of a twentysomething black woman and a fortysomething ex-cop. Nameless himself, of course, remains the moral center of the agency and the series, as well as the lead narrator. Fever focuses on how one woman's addiction to internet gambling leads her from her suburban home to a derelict San Francisco rooming house, where she turns tricks to finance her next run at the virtual casino. It also touches on other fevers that can consume people's lives. Pronzini is justly celebrated as a chronicler of San Francisco, but this novel also showcases his deft touch with interiorsâhow an unmade bed, the stench of cigarette smoke, or an antiseptically clean and empty home can say volumes about the tail ends of desperate lives. Another Pronzini winner. Copyright 2008 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2008 April #1
In the Nameless Detective's twisty, fast-paced latest (Savages, 2007, etc.), he proves that he can still track lost ladies with the best of them.Mitchell Krochek's wife has disappeared, and he wants her found. So Nameless dons his gumshoes and goes to work. Soon enough he discovers that locating Janice Korchek is a lot easier than getting her to return. For starters, she's all but stripped her husband bare of assets since degenerating into a classic compulsive gamblerâhorses, cards, slots, anything she can place a bet onâhopelessly in thrall to her raging addiction. Enter QCL (Quick Cash Loans), a company whose target clientele is needy gamblers who can be readily turned into profit centers. Janice, desperate for money, has become a useful QCL call girl. Inevitably, she turns up badly beaten but won't identify her assailant. While Nameless presses on with the Krocheks, Jake Runyan, the firm's star field investigator, deals with a far stranger assignment involving Jekyll and Hyde behavior by a young man whose sudden personality change puzzles and dismays those who love him. When it's finally explained, Nameless concludes warmly, "We get the damnedest cases."Pronzini is such a quiet writer that he tends to be undervalued, but he shouldn't be. Copyright Kirkus 2008 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2008 April #2
Once again Pronzini, soon to be designated an MWA Grand Master, captures the quiet despair of his characters' lives in the 33rd entry in his noirish whodunit series featuring the Nameless Detective (after 2007's Savages ). Mitchell Krochek, who's worried about the gambling addiction of his wife, Janice, hires Nameless to trace Janice, who's disappeared for the fourth time in four years. When Jake Runyon, Nameless's associate, traces Janice to an apartment hotel near their San Francisco office, Nameless and Jake decide to honor Janice's request not to reveal her location to her husband. Later, a battered Janice shows up at the detective agency's office, where she agrees to go home, only to vanish again amid circumstances strongly indicating foul play. In an affecting subplot, Jake investigates the mysterious beating of a devoted churchgoer's son. This insightful novel will appeal to those who like the mean streets portrayed with understatement and subtlety rather than gory violence. (June)
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