Oct 3 2011
Little Elvises (The Junior Bender Series) by Timothy Hallinan
As anyone who has trolled for cheap e-books knows, you often get what you pay for. There is a reason there are thousands of $.99 books on Amazon and other sites. They have to be priced low or no one will read them. Are there some gems amongst them? Sure, and there is always the occasional promotional offer from publishers that means a favorite author at a low price. But let’s be honest, even in this new world of publishing many self-published books just aren’t that good.
But what if a best-selling and award-winning novelist decides to write and sell a series on his own? That is another kettle of fish entirely. Which brings us to Timothy Hallinan‘s Junior Bender series.
I am a huge fan of his Poke Rafferty series and so was interested to see how he handled this new series available only in the electronic format. The first book, Crashed, was great fun so I was hoping the second would cement that reaction and mean another series to enjoy.
Well, Little Elvises didn’t let me down. It was another enjoyable romp through Los Angeles with a memorable cast of characters, Hallinan’s dry and wry sense of humor, and a twisting plot that leaves you rushing to figure out the mystery at the heart of the story.
Hallinan descirbes the story this way:
[A] Los Angeles thriller-with-a-laugh-track about old-time rock-and-roll, the Philly mob, missing persons, the world’s oldest still-dangerous gangster, and a terrifying if somewhat hapless hit man named Fronts. And a whole bunch of other stuff.
