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    New Hope for the Dead

    Written by Charles Willeford

    Narrated by Paul Birchard

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    About this audiobook

    Sergeant Hoke Moseley is called to investigate the overdose of a young junkie. But what seems like a routine OD gives Moseley cause to doubt - particularly when he meets the dead kid's stunningly attractive stepmother. With his two teenage daughters dumped on him, it starts to feel like maybe that stepmother might be that answer to all his problems. Or maybe she's just the start of them...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateNov 6, 2014
    ISBN9781471274381
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    • 4/5
      No one writes like Willeford.
    • 4/5
      I know I've read this book before, but I had forgotten most of the details. Charles Willeford had a writing style that shouldn't have worked, but somehow it did giving his characters depth and his story realism. A great read and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO ALL.
    • 4/5
      I like Willeford. I like his characters, especially Hoke's sardonic and realistic view of the world, but there was something about this book that kept nagging at me. Scenes appeared familiar ,and I kept wondering if I had read the book before. Possible, I suppose, although I couldn't find any notes or other indications of that likilihood.

      It's the grind of normal life that makes this book interesting as the investigation plot lines are rather thin. Hoke's ex-wife has dumped the two daughters on him so she can run off with a baseball player; he can't find a place to live within the newly-required city limits; his new partner is pregnant, and to top things off, he has to give his girls "the" sex lecture (which, surprisingly, probably ought to be copied and handed out to most teenagers.) One other reviewer noted that when reading Willeford's novels you don't have to suspend disbelief. Exactly right.
    • 3/5
      A lot of fun to read, but more rambling and less intense than its classic predecessor, Miami Blues. New Hope for the Dead lacks any equivalent to that book's memorable villain, so while the Hoke Moseley character is still interesting, there isn't any great suspense or sense of danger.
    • 3/5
      Miami seedy detective; improbable; but the characters are engrossing