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    Killer Routine

    By Alan Orloff

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    Comedian Channing Hayes survived a tragic auto accident that claimed the life of his fiancée, Lauren. Physically and emotionally scarred, he’s put his performing career on hold, resigned to getting laughs vicariously as co-owner of The Last Laff Comedy Club. There, he instructs Lauren’s sister Heather in the fine art of stand-up.

    When Heather skips out on her set during the club’s comedy showcase, Channing searches for his AWOL protégée. Then Heather’s ex-lovers start turning up dead—and Channing must fight to keep Heather from being the next hit in this deadly line-up.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLlewellyn Worldwide
    Release dateApr 8, 2011
    ISBN9780738731209
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    Killer Routine
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    Alan Orloff

    Alan Orloff has published ten novels and more than forty short stories. His work has won an Anthony, an Agatha, a Derringer, and two ITW Thriller Awards. He's also been a finalist for the Shamus Award and has had a story selected for THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES anthology ("Rule Number One," first appearing in SNOWBOUND from Level Best Books). Alan's next novel, SANCTUARY MOTEL, will be released in October from Level Best Books. He loves cake and arugula, but not together. Never together. He lives and writes in South Florida, where the examples of hijinks are endless.

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    • 3/5
      Look at the people around you. Repeated national surveys say the people you’re looking at dread speaking in public more than flying, illness, terrorism, and even death. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld once summarized the data by quipping, “In other words, at a funeral, the average person would rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy.”If the notion of speaking in front of any crowd intimidates you, imagine it’s your job to make a paying audience full of expectant strangers ranging from mildly skeptical onlookers to immoderately inebriated hecklers laugh at your jokes. Keep that in mind when treating yourself to author Alan Orloff’s mystery novel, “Killer Routine.” Set mostly in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., “Killer Routine” is the first entry in Orloff’s “Last Laff” series, spotlighting the amateur sleuthing of troubled stand-up comedian and comedy club-owner Channing Hayes. This well-written novel bursts open with the alarming disappearance of Heather Dempsey, Hayes’ protégée (and sister of his late fiancée, Lauren), just before she’s to make her debut appearance at Hayes’ struggling suburban comedy club. Still reeling from Lauren’s untimely death and while battling a hostile takeover attempt aimed at his nightclub, Hayes maneuvers among an escalating pile of lies and murders to find Heather and save her life before she’s victimized in a twisted plot of cold vengeance. This is no funny story, no amusing satire -- the book's tone is dark, as are the natures of many of its principal characters. In addition to spinning a gripping mystery story, “Killer Routine” gives readers a fascinating glimpse into the daunting world inhabited by the men and women who stand alone sweating under piercing floodlights on unforgiving comedy stages the world over, desperately lunging for every laugh they can get.