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Retribution: A Lew Fonesca Novel Audiobook
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Stuart M. Kaminsky, the veteran author of more than forty novels and the creator of such wonderful characters as Abe Lieberman, Toby Peters, and Inpsector Rostnikov, has created a new PI: Lew Fonesca, a world-weary guy who got in a car and just started driving after his wife died and wound up in front of a Dairy Queen in Sarasota, Florida. He now makes his way amid bail jumpers and lost wives, people who want to be found and those who will do anything to stay under their rock. He spends his days solving cases both big and small and trying to get by, while attempting to figure out how to make the rest of his life make sense. Retribution not only picks up where the first novel in the series, Vengeance, left off, but raises the bar big-time. Lew has solved his share of cases, and most of them-to his pride-have wound up having happy endings; in Vengeance, he saved a young runaway who has had a childhood nobody should ever have, and she finally seems to be turning her life around. But when she becomes involved with a reclusive best-selling author and several valuable manuscripts disappear, Lew knows that young Melanie is in way over her head. And if he doesn't act fast, not only could a few reputations get tarnished--the bodies might start piling up.
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"Retribution is the second Lew Fonesca Mystery. Adele becomes involved with a reclusive bestselling author, who hires Lew to find several of his valuable manuscripts that have disappeared."
— Clark (5 out of 5 stars)
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" Good mystery, but the main character, Lew, is so depressed, that the entire story is also depressed. Lew is a court server by law, but also does some PI work. The people he deals with and meets are just big messes. Too depressing--I don't think I'll read any more in the series. "
— Nadine, 12/5/2013 -
" I love Lew Fonesca and his friends. Even if he didn't live in Sarasota (next to Dixie Hemingway's Siesta Key), I would still enjoy his stories. Glad to see those friends and a couple troublemakers back in the 2nd of this Kaminsky series. "
— Jan, 6/29/2012 -
" A fine murder who-done-it. I enjoyed this book quite a bit considering I don't usually go for mystery style books. It has energy and life that make you care about the characters which is a rare skill indeed. "
— Bradley, 3/21/2011 -
" A fine murder who-done-it. I enjoyed this book quite a bit considering I don't usually go for mystery style books. It has energy and life that make you care about the characters which is a rare skill indeed. "
— Bradley, 6/3/2010
About Stuart M. Kaminsky
Stuart Kaminsky (1934–2009) was one of the most prolific crime fiction authors of the last four decades. He wrote sixty books in all and penned twenty-four novels starring the detective Toby Peters, whom he described as “the anti–Philip Marlowe.” In 1981’s Death of a Dissident, he debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction of Soviet life. His other two series starred Abe Lieberman, a hardened Chicago cop, and Lew Fonseca, a process server. Born in Chicago, he spent his youth immersed in pulp fiction and classic cinema—two forms of popular entertainment which he would make his life’s work. After college and a stint in the army, he wrote film criticism and biographies of the great actors and directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age. In 1977, when a planned biography of Charlton Heston fell through, he wrote Bullet for a Star, his first Toby Peters novel, beginning a fiction career that would last the rest of his life.
About Scott Brick
Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine.