Day of Wrath, Jonathan Valin
Day of Wrath, Jonathan Valin
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Day of Wrath

Author: Jonathan Valin

Narrator: Mark Peckham

Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2012

Synopsis

Sheltered but precocious Robbie Segal has run away from home, a small brick house on an unexceptional street. Her desperate mother has asked Harry Stoner to find her. What begins as an ordinary missing-persons case, a case that should be settled without any violence at all, suddenly changes in an impossibly terrifying way.Now Harry is on the trail of a shockingly brutal act of murder, because it might lead him to a runaway girl, because it had become part of the job, because something deep and indelible inside him simply has to.

About Jonathan Valin

Jonathan Valin is a mystery author best known for the Harry Stoner detective series. He won the Shamus Award for best mystery novel of 1989. After writing eleven Harry Stoner novels over a fourteen-year period, he took a break from mystery writing to help found Fi, a magazine of music criticism. He now works as an editor and reviewer for magazines.

About Mark Peckham

Mark Peckham is an actor and director based in Rhode Island. In addition to working with Trinity Rep, Virginia Stage Co., and many Boston-area theaters, he was the voice of Joseph Smith in the award-winning PBS documentary American Prophet with Gregory Peck.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on May 22, 2019

In this fourth of the eleven Harry Stoner adventures, our Cincinnati detective is hired by mother Mildred Segal to find her wandering fourteen-year-old daughter Robbie. Stoner doesn’t like Mildred much—her ferocious, defensive lower-middle-class respectability reminds him too much of the neighborhoo......more

Goodreads review by Ritch on November 21, 2021

The Harry Stoner mysteries are pretty enjoyable. HE is a writer with a good grasp of the city of Cincinnati. HE gives you a snapshot of the city over 50 years ago that still feels relevant to how it is now. Harry is on the trail of a runaway teen girl meeting colorful characters and flitting through......more

Goodreads review by Lee on August 29, 2019

Harry Stoner is the classic PI, a loner who loves his scotch and his hometown of Cincinnati. He gives the reader a grand tour and history of the city. Both good and bad parts of town. This is becoming one of my favorite hard-boiled series from the '80's.......more

Goodreads review by John on June 06, 2023

Nice little California-style PI novel transplanted to Cincinnati. Unfortunately, Valin demonstrates that he knows nothing about music and little about 1982, using tropes that were trite in 1976. And in the ridiculous climax is woefully out of place. Pperhaps Valin is trying to poach on Don Pendelton......more

Goodreads review by Cindy B. on January 25, 2014

Gory tale, well written and well read in audio version.......more

Quotes

“Since Mr. Valin is an expert writer who provides coherent plots and believable dialogue, it comes as no surprise that his Stoner books have taken hold.” New York Times, praise for the series

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