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    Felonious Jazz: A Crime Thriller Novel
    Felonious Jazz: A Crime Thriller Novel
    Felonious Jazz: A Crime Thriller Novel
    Audiobook6 hours

    Felonious Jazz: A Crime Thriller Novel

    Written by Bryan Gilmer

    Narrated by Bryan Gilmer

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Jeff Davis Swaine digs up evidence for a Raleigh, North Carolina, trial law firm. When a client comes home to find his McMansion burglarized - and his new wife's dog dead in the kitchen - the man suspects his ex-wife. But this is someone far more dangerous. From a stolen minivan, washed-up jazz bassist Leonard Noblac is performing his "perfect jazz album of felonies" to punish the zeros in the soulless suburb of Rocky Falls. He composes a series of musical compositions and meticulously plans out symbolic crimes to go along with each one, believing the notoriety from his crimes will finally make him famous for his music. Used to working from the shadow at the back of the stage, and bitter from his failure to make it in the New York jazz world and his move to the suburbs, Leonard puts down a throbbing beat of crime and destruction. As Leonard’s crimes give voice to his rage, he finds himself able to improvise like never before, with terrifying results. Jeff must find Leonard and save the teenager and newborn he has kidnapped before the musician can write them into the fiery crescendo of Leonard’s album.

    Author Bryan Gilmer teaches newswriting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A former newspaper reporter and radio newsreader, he is also the author of the mystery Kill the Story. This audiobook is narrated by the author.

    Published by Laurel Bluff Books. Distributed by Big Happy Family LLC.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBig Happy Family
    Release dateMar 1, 2011
    ISBN9780983424819
    Felonious Jazz: A Crime Thriller Novel

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    • 5/5
      Very whacky and funny, with lots of musical references. But gripping when it needs to be. I was very entertained.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. I could relate to the characters. The plot was realistic. The twist kept your interest. I liked the narrators voice
    • 3/5
      This is a very odd story. I picked it up for the musical theme and the location. Leonard Noblac, a washed-up jazz bassist, plans to complete the ultimate musical statement by exacting revenge on the wife who has left him and the "zeroes" who live in a well-to-do Raleigh suburb. Jeff Swain, an investigator who works for Noblac's ex-wife's law firm, is called on to investigate several odd crimes. There is no mystery for the reader to solve; we see Leonard's warped thinking and his acts, as well as Jeff's efforts to figure out what's happening. The climax seems inevitable, although we get one last interesting twist. It's hard to know how to rate this book, or whether to recommend it.