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Burning Midnight: An Amos Walker Novel Audiobook
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In Burning Midnight, master of the hard-boiled detective novel Loren D. Estleman gives listeners a hot new Amos Walker mystery.Amos Walker knows Detroit, from the highest to the lowest, and that includes the gangs of Mexicantown. When a friend asks Walker to get his son's brother-in-law out of one of two feuding gangs, Walker gets in trouble fast. First, dead bodies start to pile up; then come suspicious fires and the bottle bombs. Walker is caught in the middle of a gang war. Whether or not a middle-aged gringo like him can cool things off between the Maldados and the Zapatistas, he's got to try; he did promise his friend. Once he gets involved, he realizes there's something else going on; the specter of an international conspiracy threatens to make this local trouble blow sky-high. And if he ends up dead or in jail for murders he didn't commit, he might have to put that promise on hold. It's tough being Amos Walker.
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"It's always good to spend time with hard-boiled detective Amos Walker and get his take on people, place, and politics. Terrific descriptions and great dialogue. Perhaps because I've read so many of his cases, I anticipated how things would work out and that took some of the edge off the experience."
— Carolyn (4 out of 5 stars)
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“Shamus Award–winner Estleman demonstrates that the art of inserting a Philip Marlowe–esque hero into modern times is alive and well in his twenty-first novel featuring Detroit PI Amos Walker…. Estleman presents a powerful view of the battered inner city. Three decades on, Estleman and Walker show no signs of slowing down.
— Publishers Weekly, Starred Review on Infernal Angels -
Estleman has piled up enough literary awards to add a wing to his home. Read this classic yet modern example of the hard-boiled detective novel and you'll begin to understand why.
— Booklist on Infernal Angels -
Estleman's latest intricate and wholly enjoyable yarn is peppered with mob lore, Detroit history, and the ever-present one-liners. It's sure to please fans of urban mysteries as well as classic detective genre devotees. Strongly recommended.
— Library Journal on The Left-Handed Dollar -
Amos Walker, the throwback private eye who operates out of Detroit in Loren D. Estleman's hard-boiled mysteries, is a lot like the old Cutlass he drives. The guy may look beat up, but under the hood he's a clean machine.
— The New York Times Book Review on The Left-Handed Dollar
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A 2013 Nero Award Nominee
Burning Midnight Listener Reviews
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" Excellent, fast-paced with not a wasted word. The plot is kind of thin, but overall it's a fun read. "
— David, 10/3/2013 -
" Excellent late 20th Century noir. Mr. Estleman is in a class unto himself. "
— Richard, 8/19/2013 -
" Snappy dialogue.Deals with the gray areas of right and wrong.Mildly Machiavellian. "
— Mark, 8/9/2013 -
" I'll read anything by Estleman. "
— Jane, 7/2/2013 -
" 3.5 Amos Walker continues to entertain, though this is not one of the strongest. "
— Lynn, 5/4/2013 -
" Amos Walker is a really interesting character. He should not be wasted in story lines as weak as this. "
— Don, 2/21/2013 -
" #21 in the Amos Walker 1950's style hard drinking, hard boiled, wise cracking private investigator in today's Detroit. Walker's case takes him into Detroit's Mexicantown to tangle with gangs, arson and murder. This is a good mystery series with interesting cases and good characterization. "
— George, 2/20/2013 -
" This is a typical Amos Walker mystery set in Detroit with a new twist. This time Walker gets involved investigating Mexican gangs. Like in the others in this series, Walker's dry humor and smart mouth make him more than likeable. "
— Jim, 2/5/2013 -
" Yes, another Amos Walker. Set in the oldest part of town, around the Mexican restaurants we all haunted when working downtown. Amos is coming into the world of electronics. "
— Jane, 1/18/2013 -
" He's done better. Not much action. However, he is a master of descriptive phrases. "
— Al, 11/7/2012 -
" Best noir dialogue in the business! "
— Scott, 9/19/2012
About Loren D. Estleman
Loren D. Estleman is an award-winning author of mainstream fiction, Westerns, criticism, and mysteries. He has written more than eighty novels, including in the Amos Walker, Page Murdock, and Peter Macklin series. He is the winner of four Shamus Awards, five Spur Awards, three Western Heritage Awards, a Barry Award, the Elmer Kelton Award, two Stirrup Awards, and a Popular Fiction Magazine Outstanding Writer Award. He has received lifetime achievement awards from the Western Writers of America, the Private Eye Writers of America, the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and the Arts Alliance of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
About Peter Larkin
Ken Scholes’s short fiction has been appearing in various magazines and anthologies for the last eight years, including Realms of Fantasy, Polyphony 6, and Weird Tales. He is a winner of the Writers of the Future contest. Ken’s background includes service in two branches of the military, a degree in history, a brief stint as a clergyman, an even briefer stint as a label-gun repairman and over ten years’ experience managing nonprofit organizations. Originally from the Puget Sound area, Ken currently lives in Gresham, Oregon, with his amazing wonder-wife Jen, two cats, five guitars, and more books than you’d ever want to help him move.