Rock of Ages

Informationen zum Autor Timothy Hallinan has been nominated for the Edgar, Nero, Shamus, Macavity, and Silver Dagger awards. He is the author of twenty-two widely praised books, including the Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers, most recently Street Music and the Junior Bender Hollywood burglar mysteries, including Herbie's Game , winner of the Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery. After years of working in the television and music industries, he now writes full-time. He lives in California and Thailand. Klappentext "Four of Dressler's old gangster colleagues have put together a national tour of once-popular rock bands they own a piece of: three nights of concerts by guys (and a few gals) who were big shots back in the 1960s and 1970s, and who are now hoping for one more gasp of glory with this nostalgia exhibition. The Rock of Ages tour has proved itself to be anything but a love fest: plenty of the bandmates have been feuding for forty years, and-perhaps unsurprisingly-drugs and bad behavior have created health, wellness, and legal problems for the musicians and managers. Plus there have been two near-fatal accidents that might have been attempted murders. But they're not what Irwin Dressler is concerned about. It's that someone-one of his own colleagues-is using the tour as a front to steal Dressler's money. And that simply cannot be allowed. Now the tour has pulled into LA, and Junior has one weekend to figure out who's to blame-a weekend that begins with his tires being slashed, threatening notes left on his car, and a theatrical backdrop falling on a drummer during the truly terrible first set of the first concert. To make things worse, Junior is saddled for the weekend with his teenage daughter, Rina, who lately has been much, much too interested in how her father earns his living. Can Junior recover Dressler's money, prevent a murder, talk his daughter out of pursuing a life of crime, and somehow survive all that bad music?"-- Leseprobe 1 Maybe a Hat? Friday Night The drum solo had gone on so long that it seemed to be taking place in geological time, and there was no indication that it was nearing an end. On the contrary, every time my hopes rose, someone in the sparse audience screamed something like “Faaaaar OUT ” or “Go, Boomboom ,” and the message seemed to get through the wall of noise because the drummer—who went by the name of Boomboom Black, although (as I had recently learned) he’d been born Morton Fefferman—did the impossible and played even louder.      And then he did it again.      Still, whenever I was gripped by a really compelling need to flee the theater, I looked at the guy holding the sticks—Morton or Boomboom—and felt a grudging admiration for his willpower and his stamina, while withholding the laurel wreath for taste. With the sparse, stringy, shoulder-length gray hair, the seemingly frail arms, and the ropy neck, he looked like he was moments away from having a special soft-food breakfast delivered on a tray in a place with a name like Perpetual Acres or Sunset Highway. Instead, he had embarked on a solo that, from my perspective, threatened to outlive him.      The evening had begun on a note of discord and had grown more cacophonous ever since, a bad joke that had slowly turned into a worse one. When there were butts in the relatively few seats that had been sold, the lights had gone to half and the absolutely massive speakers that had been hung over the stage erupted with the enormous chords of Strauss’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra,” better known to the generation—some of whose members had (in part, at least) embraced this band—as “the 2001 music.” A follow spot lit up, pointed at no one, and then, after a jiggle or two, jerked spasmodically to our left, to the area downstage where a silver-haired little guy, who might have been five feet two inches tall and maybe seventy years old, was ...

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Hallinan
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2023
• EAN: 9781641294591
• ISBN: 978-1-64129-459-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 209 mm x 23 mm
• Series: A Junior Bender Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense