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    Until Death
    Until Death
    Until Death
    Audiobook9 hours

    Until Death

    Written by James L. Thane

    Narrated by Jeff Cummings

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In the spirit of Robert Crais and Michael Connelly comes the taut sequel to No Place to Die, author James L. Thane’s crime-fiction debut that the Arizona Republic declared “enthralling.”

    Phoenix has everything that comes with being the Sunbelt’s biggest boomtown—money, power, secrets, adultery, murder. It seems many of the richest and most respectable men in town are also clients of one very expensive escort, Gina Gallagher. When those upstanding husbands and fathers start turning up dead, seasoned homicide detective Sean Richardson and his partner, Maggie McClinton, start tracking down leads. But time is running out. The killer, desperate for some kind of personal justice, has Gallagher’s little black book and is working through the client list rapidly, methodically, brutally. Meanwhile, Richardson has problems of his own. Haunted by the recent death of his wife, he falls prey to private demons and finds himself doing a lot of things he knows he shouldn’t. The body count grows and the tension mounts as Richardson struggles with his own dark side while racing to stop a relentless killer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 28, 2014
    ISBN9781480572973
    Until Death
    Author

    James L. Thane

    James L. Thane was raised in western Montana and earned a PhD in American history from the University of Iowa. Before he set about chronicling the dark side of his adopted home of Phoenix, he worked as a janitor, a dry cleaner, an auto parts salesman, an ambulance driver, and a college professor. As a historian, Thane has written one book and numerous magazine and journal articles. He has also written and produced two television series for PBS affiliate WQPT. He divides his time between Scottsdale, Arizona, and Lakeside, Montana.

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    • 3/5
      This is a detective/crime novel about a high-class call girl who loses her day-planner, and one-by-one her clients start getting killed off. But who is killing them?! I really enjoyed it, and it was an easy read. This is the second in a series. I plan to go back & read book one, and am looking forward to book three which is supposed to be out soon.
    • 4/5
      Imagine you're a top-shelf "escort," and some whack-job gets a hold of your day planner and starts offing your clientele, one by one. What do you do?In Until Death, Sean Richardson, a Phoenix homicide detective, is tasked with investigating a series of murders that seem, at first, to be unrelated. But then Gina Gallagher, an off-the-charts-beautiful call girl, comes into the police station and drops a bombshell: the recent homicide victims were all her clients. And her day planner, which contains the names of all her clients, has gone missing. From there, Richardson works the clues, and they lead him on a goose chase involving the men in Gallagher's life: a lawyer who turns out to have installed a secret camera in her apartment, an ex-boyfriend who takes pictures of her a la a peeping tom, and a host of other johns/well-heeled businessmen with money and motives to spare. Like in any good mystery, practically everyone has a motive, whether it be jealousy, revenge, or just general creepiness, and it takes a while--perhaps too long, in my opinion--for Richardson to sort through the motives and alibis and solve the case. However, in the end, he does, and the penultimate scene is dripping with tension and drama and well worth the wait. For me, the women in this novel are what elevate Until Death above the many, many police procedurals lining the bookshelves. Gina Gallagher, a high-end escort/personal trainer, is anything but a stereotypical call girl. She is pragmatic and a calculating business woman, but at the same time she has a heart and a brain. Nancy Ballard, the grieving wife of the first homicide victim, is also interesting. I don't want to spoil the plot, but Thane does an excellent job of shifting the narration between Sean Richardson, the lead homicide detective on the case, and Ballard, who plays a significant role in the case's conclusion. From a reader's standpoint, I think that Thane captured the voice of an angry, grieving, and vengeful widow very well, and he does so without slowing down the pace of the narrative, which is paramount in a police procedural. While Gallagher and Ballard were certainly well-drawn, I most say I found Maggie McClinton, Richardson's partner, to be the most compelling character in the entire book. She is foul-mouthed, tough, and capable, and I am hoping to see much more of her in future novels. Bottom line, this is a solid, highly-readable book, and I look forward to the next in the series. In the meantime, I will go back and read No Place to Die, the first in the series.
    • 5/5
      I read the first in the Sean Richardson series and liked it. This 2nd is even better The mark of a good entertainment, regardless of genre, is being compelled by the story to get back to it and see what happens. Until Death meets that test handsomely. Sean is still despondent over the death of his wife several months earlier and Maggie has her own romantic pressures. I liked the relationship between the two: supportive and friendly without the "jump-in-the-sack" syndrome that bedevils so many partner relationships. A man is bludgeoned to death in his garage. There are no clues. Then three other men are gunned down in seemingly random fashion, except they had been killed with the same gun. Things get interesting when a high-priced escort comes forward to reveal she had lost her client list (in a day-planner, no less) and realized all three of the men had been her clients. Sean and "Maggs," are stumped; they have a plethora of suspects but all seem to have solid alibis. By Part II some of the best suspects have been killed and a new one is revealed (I was surprised by who took the client book and his motive is never revealed.) Really don't want to drop any spoilers in here. Just buy and read the book. Very enjoyable. P.S. I would *really* like to meet Gina Gallagher.