Fields Where They Lay
A Junior Bender Holiday Mystery

I don't usually jump into the middle of a mystery series...but when I do, it's usually a Christmas installment that tempts me. Hallinan is actually a new author for me and I quite like both his writing and his anti-hero, Junior Bender. I call him an anti-hero, because Junior is a burglar extraordina......more

Cat burglar Junior Bender, the private detective for Los Angeles crooks, hates Christmas, and his Scrooge-like attitude gets worse when a Russian mobster forces him take on a case just three days before the holiday. After Junior is told that his teenage daughter will be killed unless he cooperates,......more

An intelligent, humorous and philosophical look at Christmas through the eyes of Hallinan's Junior Bender, a self-interested burglar with a Robin Hood heart. What stayed with me most was not the well-crafted plot as much as Bender's ruminations between action scenes in which he ponders Christmas, hu......more

Fields Where They Lay by Timothy Hallinan Junior Bender is in a seasonal funk as Christmas approaches. It's three days before Christmas, he hasn't done a thing to prepare, and would just as soon not have to think about it. When his old client and adversary, gangstress Trey Annunziato calls in what sh......more

This being my first Junior Bender detective book (it’s number 6 in Timothy Hallinan’s series), I’m fully aware that I’m a little late to the party here. In fact it’s like I just arrived to the party and the hosts are already picking up all the crushed beer cans, what’s left of the cheese ball has be......more