Natural Causes

Name: Natural Causes
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Jonathan Valin
ISBN: 9781620643198

Author: Jonathan Valin

Series: Harry Stoner Series #5

Narrator: Mark Peckham

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 11/01/2012

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled, Private Investigators

Synopsis

Detective Harry Stoner has seen too much of the seamy side of life not to notice the tarnish on Los Angeles' glitter or the gritty reality behind the never-never land of television's biggest daytime soaps. A detergent manufacturer, already begrimed by scandal and rumor, doesn't want his image further muddied by the mysterious death of the head writer on the daytime series he sponsors. So it's up to Stoner to find out what really happened that sunny August weekend when Quentin Dover took his last shower. What Stoner uncovers is a slick world of high finance and low morals, all powered with cocaine, a sexy blond widow turned on by booze and boys, the broken lives of the men and women who create America's TV fantasies, and the perfect setting for greed, jealousy, and murder.

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

I’ve been re-reading all the Harry Stoner detective novels, books that I first read more than thirty years ago. In doing so, I’ve tasted many first-rate prose passages, thrilled to more than a few abrupt explosions of violence, and relished a good mystery here, a surprising unmasking there. But not......more

Goodreads review by Wayne

NATURAL CAUSES by Jonathan Valin….. I like private eye Harry Stoner. Maybe it’s because he’s low-key and a realistic guy. Or maybe it’s because I like his hometown of Cincinnati—They have two Jungle Jim’s international food mega-markets. In this 1983 novel, Harry is hired by the CEO of a conglomerate......more

Goodreads review by Cindy B.

Hollywood, murders, and behind the scenes - good start on a readable book and author comes thru. Some sex (authors usual) otherwise interesting. Well performed by Mark Peckham - Also his usual.......more