Incinerator

Name: Incinerator
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Timothy Hallinan
ISBN: 9781504608930

Author: Timothy Hallinan

Series: Simeon Grist Mysteries #4

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Unabridged: 9 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 07/07/2015

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Private Investigators

Synopsis

Edgar and Macavity Award nominee Timothy Hallinan's novels featuring erudite Los Angeles private eye Simeon Grist have become cult favorites—and this fourth installment is one wild ride.Simeon Grist is about to face off against his most terrifying adversary—a madman who's setting fire to the homeless. As Simeon is drawn into the case, very much against his will, he realizes that the "Incinerator" has a huge advantage. Somewhere, years ago, the two of them met, and the Incinerator has been nursing hatred and resentment for years. Now, as helpless people burst into flame on Skid Row, Simeon has to scour the wastelands of Los Angeles, and his own past, looking for the face of a killer.

About Timothy Hallinan

Timothy Hallinan is the Edgar and Macavity Award–nominated author of over a dozen widely praised books, including the Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers and the Junior Bender series. In 2010 he conceived and edited an e-book of original short stories by twenty mystery writers, Shaken: Stories for Japan, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to Japanese disaster relief.

About Keith Szarabajka

Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins’s Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Wyckliffe on December 03, 2018

Someone is torching sleeping homeless folks with gasoline and wooden kitchen matches. Simeon is hired by a wealthy heiress to find the incinerator as she has no confidence in the police. Her father was among the ones killed. He reluctantly agrees, and coordinates with the police and a profiler psych......more

Goodreads review by Glen on September 08, 2017

Timothy Hallinan's fourth addition to his Simeon Grist series, while an adequate PI novel, was not up to the previous books about the Phd detective. The writing was good, a noir type of novel set in Los Angeles, but the main appeal of his previous novels, the characters, especially Simeon, were just......more

Goodreads review by Will on September 10, 2017

This was a fair thriller with a PI spin that didn't quite stack up. I had a hard time relating to the main character and forget the supporting cast. Oops, I already did. There was so much disconnect between the reader and the characters that it just never came together. I couldn't shake the feeling......more

Goodreads review by Araych on June 27, 2023

Simeon Grist #4. A firebug is burning people alive and Simeon is hired to find and stop him. I'm a fan of everything Hallinan has written ( Simeon Grist series, Poke Rafferty series and the Junior Bender series) and this story is extremely scary and suspenseful. I really liked it -- 5 stars.......more

Goodreads review by Brucie on June 20, 2016

Completely adequate thriller. Compared to other Grist stories, this is a paint-by-number fill-in-the-blank episode without outstanding charm or significant insight but told with too many words. Still way better than most misfit/detective + police + psychopath murder mysteries.......more

Quotes

“Timely, suspenseful, and exciting.” Sidney Sheldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“An excellent job.” Chicago Tribune

“It takes a while for Simeon to put a name to the pyromaniac—clues come in the obtuse form of ancient gods—but when he does, the novel becomes a skittering, roller-coaster ride to the finish.” Booklist

“Vital and full of conflict. Highly recommended.” Library Journal

“A generous and inventive writer…Hallinan has talent and skill. Simeon Grist is a classic California hard-boiled detective, beautifully playing the role of knight errant.” Drood Review, praise for the series