Fire Lake, Jonathan Valin
Fire Lake, Jonathan Valin
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Fire Lake

Author: Jonathan Valin

Narrator: Mark Peckham

Unabridged: 8 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2012

Synopsis

A phone ringing after midnight means trouble, especially in private eye Harry Stoner's business. This time the 1:30 call is trouble, all right. A motel clerk wants somebody to pick up the loser registered as Harry Stoner who just tried to kill himself. When the real Stoner gets to the Encantada Motel, he finds his old college roommate nearly dead and too many memories still alive. It's a suicide attempt that forces Stoner back into his own past, where a pretty woman, a brutal murder, and the bitter remnants of the sixties drug culture make Stoner's future look rosy…like flowers on a grave.

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 November 05, 2019

This seventh Harry Stoner detective adventure is not quite as good as the last two. That’s okay, though: last two—Natural Causes (1983) and Life’s Work (1986) were masterpieces of the genre. Fire Lake (1987) is just a damn fine novel. Actually—although there is a murder and a mystery included—it seem......more

Goodreads review by Ann on November 20, 2022

This is pure genre fiction - not bad, if you look at it from that point of view. Harry Stoner, a private detective, is called out of bed by the night clerk of a sleazy motel because his phone number was found among the papers of a suicidal guest who checked in under the name of ... Harry Stoner. To......more

Goodreads review by Lee on November 07, 2024

Gotta love Harry Stoner, a great regional series.......more

Goodreads review by Bill on December 17, 2023

Jonathan Valin was writing classic private investigator novels in 1980s, way after the golden age, but that does not diminish the fun of the genre, indeed, I feel he brings something new to it, or may he his just writing about a time I have lived through - as opposed to 1940/50s Los Angeles. Valin w......more

Goodreads review by Sandi on October 27, 2013

I did not like this entry in the series quite as well as some of the previous ones because the main character, PI Harry Stoner, let his nostalgia for the sixties override his usual common sense but it was well written and the journey through the drug culture of mid- eighties Cincinnati seemed authen......more

Quotes

“Valin’s prose is spare and at times chilling, the plot is complex yet coherent, and Cincinnati emerges as a city with a vibrant and distinctive personality.” Publishers Weekly

“Using the detective story as a medium, Valin writes complex dramas that explore the depths of human emotions and motivation. As Stoner becomes more real with each book, the novels themselves live as fine examples of what a first-rate author can accomplish in the genre.” Library Journal

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