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Praise for Little Elvises "Splendidly entertaining." —NPR Great Reads of 2013 Selection "Could not stop laughing. Tim Hallinan is sharp as a blade, has a wicked eye for human nature and keeps the reader guessing and rooting for Junior Bender all the way." —Helen Simonson, New York Times bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand "Hallinan introduces us to a drugged-out, pain-impervious hit man, a nonagenarian puppet master who rules the L.A. underworld, a tabloid reporter who uses his job as a cover to blackmail the rich and the famous, and a host of other characters as dangerously outrageous as the murderous crew obsessed with obtaining the black bird in Hammett's 1930 masterpiece." — Associated Press "Every now and then a writer comes along with the imagination and skill to make the whole thing feel fresh and new again. That's what veteran crime novelist Timothy Hallinan has accomplished." — Washington Post "The first book in the series, 'Crashed' (2012), was great fun. The new one, 'Little Elvises,' is even better." — San Francisco Chronicle "An intricate high-stakes plot [and] a compelling subplot." — Miami Herald "Heart-pounding." — Salon "As the story opens, Junior is in a fix, or rather, a bunch of them..." — Huffington Post "Featuring Junior Bender, full-time Los Angeles burglar and part-time private eye-style fixer for the city's criminal element." — Seattle Times "For decades I've been looking to scratch my Fletch itch, and Crashed gave me hope -- it’s a well-written mystery with a smart, funny protagonist. I cracked open this sequel both hopeful that it would be as good and scared that I'd be let down. It didn't... Throw out everything you think you know about genre writing. Every word in this book belongs exactly where you find it." —Bill Barnes, Unshelved "If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan. The Edgar nominee's laugh-out-loud new crime series featuring Hollywood burglar-turned-private eye Junior Bender has breakout written all over it... A must-read." —Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times bestselling author of One Was a Soldier “Rewarding.... Captures the SoCal milieu perfectly and impeccably.” — Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Hugely,splendidly entertaining... Full of delightful characters, and dialogue that provides at least one good laugh on every page, the book is so hard to put down you’ll swear it’s been glued to your hands." — Booklist , STARRED Review “Hallinan’s characters and dialog are top-notch, with a lively plot full of witty banter and comic scenes that will keep readers laughing.” — Library Journal " Little Elvises begs comparison to Tom Doresey or Carl Hiaasen novels: It's quirky and hip, and often laugh-out-loud funny." — BookPage , TOP PICK "One thing that immediately hits you about Timothy Hallinan’s writing is the clarity and snap of his prose. Junior Bender isn’t a gumshoe, but the cadence of his voice and his observations harken back to other great detectives who were expert at landing a crucial, devastating remark, as well as using their fists or a pistol. It’s a cliché, of course, to bring up Raymond Chandler’s Marlowe, but the similarities are nevertheless present in fitting ways." —Derek Hill, Mystery Scene "A nifty plot...[that] takes a surprising and satisfying twist in the final chapters Informationen zum Autor Timothy Hallinan has been nominated for the Edgar, Nero, Shamus, and Macavity awards. He is the author of twenty widely praised books, including The F...
