Books by Timothy Hallinan

The Fame Thief (A Junior Bender Mystery Book 3)

by Timothy Hallinan (Soho Crime)

(312 reviews)

Hollywood burglar-turned-detective Junior Bender has a knotty new case to solve -- a 60-year-old Tinseltown mystery There are not many people brave enough to say no to Irwin Dressler, Hollywood's infamous mob boss-turned-movie king. Even though Dressler is ninety-three years old, Junior Bender is quaking in his boots when Dressler's henchmen haul him in for a meeting. Dressler wants Junior to... See More

Length: 337 Pages (1,641 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Crashed (A Junior Bender Mystery Book 1)

by Timothy Hallinan (Soho Crime)

(647 reviews)

Quick-talking burglar Junior Bender gets blackmailed into starting a new career as a private investigator for crooks in this hilarious Hollywood mystery Junior Bender, a burglar with a magic touch, is being blackmailed into taking on a new freelance job. One of LA's biggest crime bosses is producing a porn movie that someone keeps sabotaging; Junior's job is to figure out who's responsible and... See More

Length: 459 Pages (1,821 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Nighttown (A Junior Bender Mystery Book 7)

by Timothy Hallinan (Soho Crime)

(352 reviews)

"Exceedingly funny... this one's good for what ails you." -- The New York Times Reluctant P.I. to the perfidious, Junior Bender, may be L.A.'s smoothest operator but when he breaks one of the cardinal rules of burglary (don't take scores that you're being paid way too much for) he finds himself once again on the wrong side of, well, the wrong side. Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender has a rule... See More

Length: 385 Pages (813 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Fields Where They Lay (A Junior Bender Mystery Book 6)

by Timothy Hallinan (Soho Crime)

(352 reviews)

"Burglar Junior Bender may just be our favorite literary P.I." -- Entertainment Weekly It's three days until Christmas and Junior Bender, Hollywood's fasttalking fixer for the felonious, is up to his ears in shopping mall Santas, Russian mobsters, desperate holiday shoppers, and ('tis the season) murder. The halls are decked, the deck is stacked, and here comes that jolly old elf. Junior... See More

Length: 385 Pages (2,832 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

A Nail Through the Heart: A Novel of Bangkok (Poke Rafferty Thriller Book 1)

by Timothy Hallinan

(420 reviews)

An expat detective in Bangkok discovers the dark truths beneath the surface of his chosen home in this "fast, bold, and beautifully written" thriller (T. Jefferson Parker). Travel writer Poke Rafferty was good at looking for trouble -- so good that he made a little money writing a few offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored. But that was before Bangkok stole his heart. Now the... See More

Length: 354 Pages (3,634 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Little Elvises (A Junior Bender Mystery Book 2)

by Timothy Hallinan (Soho Crime)

(234 reviews)

JUNIOR BENDER UNTANGLES ONE OF THE WEIRDEST MYSTERIES IN TINSELTOWN LA burglar Junior Bender has (unfortunately) developed a reputation as a competent private investigator for crooks. The unfortunate part about this is that regardless of whether he solves the crime or not, someone dangerous is going to be unhappy with him, either his suspect or his employer. Now Junior is being bullied into... See More

Length: 353 Pages (1,436 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

King Maybe (A Junior Bender Mystery Book 5)

by Timothy Hallinan (Soho Crime)

(351 reviews)

Hollywood burgler Junior Bender finds himself caught in a revenge plot epic enough for the silver screen. Los Angeles's most talented burglar, Junior Bender, is in the middle of stealing one of the world's rarest stamps from a professional killer when his luck suddenly turns sour. It takes an unexpected assist to get him out alive, but his escape sets off a chain reaction of blackmail... See More

Length: 401 Pages (604 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Rock of Ages (A Junior Bender Mystery Book 8)

by Timothy Hallinan (Soho Crime)

(201 reviews)

Junior Bender, Los Angeles burglar and off-the-books detective to the felonious, is reminded that rock and roll will never die (no matter how fervently he wishes some of it would) when Hollywood's most dangerous geriatric mobster, Irwin Dressler, retains Junior's investigative services to solve a rather unharmonious problem. Four of Dressler's old gangster colleagues have put together a national... See More

Length: 337 Pages (898 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Fools' River (A Poke Rafferty Novel Book 8)

by Timothy Hallinan (Soho Crime)

(263 reviews)

The eighth installment in Timothy Hallinan's Edgar Award-nominated ticking-clock thriller about the most dangerous facets of Bangkok's seedy underbelly. The two most difficult days in Bangkok writer Poke Rafferty's life begin with an emergency visit from Edward Dell, the almost-boyfriend of Poke's teenage daughter, Miaow. The boy's father, Buddy, a late-middle-aged womanizer who has moved to... See More

Length: 368 Pages (1,385 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Herbie's Game (A Junior Bender Mystery Book 4)

by Timothy Hallinan (Soho Crime)

(401 reviews)

Carl Hiaasen meets Agatha Christie in this funny hard-boiled mystery starring Junior Bender -- the thief-turned-PI hailed as "the clown prince of crime fiction" (Suspense Magazine). In present-day L.A., Junior faces a murderous conspiracy -- and the increasingly confusing legacy of his burglar-mentor, Herbie Mott. It's everyday business when Wattles, the San Fernando Valley's top "executive... See More

Length: 401 Pages (2,323 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

The Hot Countries (A Poke Rafferty Novel Book 7)

by Timothy Hallinan (Soho Crime)

(266 reviews)

Back when Poke Rafferty first arrived in Bangkok to write a travel guide, some of the old-timers in the Expat Bar on Patpong Road helped him make sense of the city. Now these men -- many of whom have been living in Southeast Asia since the Vietnam War -- have grown old and, in some cases, frail. When a talkative stranger named Arthur Varney turns up at the Expat Bar, they accept him without... See More

Length: 337 Pages (1,874 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Street Music (A Poke Rafferty Novel Book 9)

by Timothy Hallinan (Soho Crime)

(229 reviews)

Eight years ago, Poke Rafferty, an American travel writer, and his Thai wife, Rose, adopted a Bangkok street child named Miaow, forming an unconventional intercultural family. That family has weathered extreme challenges -- each of its three members carried the scars of a painful and dangerous history -- but has stuck together with tenacity and love (and a little help from some friends). Now... See More

Length: (587 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

The Fear Artist (Poke Rafferty Thriller Book 5)

by Timothy Hallinan (Soho Crime)

(217 reviews)

"Edgar-finalist Hallinan's heartrending, unforgettable fifth Poke Rafferty thriller" (Publishers Weekly starred review) set in Thailand comes to Soho Crime An accidental collision on a Bangkok sidewalk goes very wrong when the man who ran into Rafferty dies in his arms, but not before saying three words: Helen Eckersley. Cheyenne. Seconds later, the police arrive, denying that the man was shot... See More

Length: 342 Pages (3,798 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

For the Dead (Poke Rafferty Thriller Book 6)

by Timothy Hallinan (Soho Crime)

(303 reviews)

In Bangkok, Thailand, an American travel journalist and his Thai family find themselves inadvertently entangled in a web of dirty cops and far-reaching corruption when their daughter's ill-gotten cell phone displays photographs of some very crooked cops, all of them thoroughly dead. Poke Rafferty is happier than he's ever been. He's financially solvent, his family is about to grow larger, and... See More

Length: 353 Pages (1,923 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

The Queen of Patpong: A Poke Rafferty Thriller

by Timothy Hallinan (HarperCollins e-books)

(303 reviews)

"Hallinan is a wordsmith of the first order, and he puts his great narrative skills into overdrive on this one... You won't read a better thriller this year!" -- John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling author of Treasure Hunt Author Timothy Hallinan returns to Bangkok, Thailand -- and plunges his protagonist, travel writer Poke Rafferty, into graver peril than ever before -- in The Queen of... See More

Length: 390 Pages (2,467 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Breathing Water: A Poke Rafferty Thriller

by Timothy Hallinan (HarperCollins e-books)

(200 reviews)

Timothy Hallinan brings Bangkok, Thailand, to life in all its exotic, seedy, dangerous glory in Breathing Water, his third novel of unrelenting suspense to feature expatriate American travel writer Poke Rafferty. A breathtaking thriller in which innocence and evil, power and poverty collide on neon streets and in palatial Asian mansions, Breathing Water is Hallinan's finest work yet, capturing... See More

Length: 356 Pages (2,769 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

The Fourth Watcher: A Bangkok Thriller (Poke Rafferty Thriller Book 2)

by Timothy Hallinan (HarperCollins e-books)

(278 reviews)

The author of the Looking for Trouble travel book series, Poke Rafferty is ready to settle down in Bangkok with his fiancée, Rose, and his newly adopted daughter, Miaow. But trouble isn't ready to let him go; it's back in Poke's life with a vengeance, in the guise of his long-estranged father, Frank, the last person he ever wanted to see again. And Frank hasn't come empty-handed, arriving with a... See More

Length: 338 Pages (5,131 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Timothy Hallinan's Cult Classic Simeon Grist Mysteries Boxed Set, Volume 1: Box Set 1: The Four Last Things," "Everything But the Squeal," "Skin Deep" ... (The Simeon Grist Mysteries Boxed Sets)

by Timothy Hallinan (Timothy Hallinan)

(32 reviews)

Do you miss the 1990s? Well, who would? But here they are anyway --- the first three books in Timothy Hallinan's cult-classic private-eye series featuring the seriously over-educated, Topanga-Canyon-dwelling private eye Simeon Grist are now available as a boxed set. On a tsunami of critical praise, they flew onto bookstore shelves everywhere and stubbornly remained there. But now they're back... See More

Length: 932 Pages (8,470 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Bangkok Noir

by Eric Stone (Heaven Lake Press)

(30 reviews)

Bangkok is one of the great cities in the world, but unlike other great metropolises it has no noir tales to its name. Bangkok Noir puts that to right. In this first ever noir anthology of Bangkok, twelve seasoned and internationally known -- Thai and Western -- writers have come together to make a powerful collection of crime fiction short stories that portray the dark side of this Asian... See More

Length: 304 Pages (932 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Crimespree Magazine #52

by Todd Robinson (Down & Out Books)

Issue 52 Double Cover Feature this time around - Todd Robinson and Joelle Charbonneau. There's interviews with Timothy Hallinan, Michael Stanley, Jake Hinkson, Antonio Hill, Henry Kisor and Lee Child and Colin Campbell. Short fiction is supplied by Michael Stanley and M.H. Callway. And the usual suspects are included for your enjoyment: Reed Farrel Coleman, Linda Brown, Craig McDonald and... See More

Length: 165 Pages (769 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

The Four Last Things (Simeon Grist #1) (Simeon Grist Mystery Book 2)

by Timothy Hallinan (Hallinan Consulting)

(73 reviews)

Fans of Robert B. Parker's Spenser books should try this one. Hallinan, a 2011 Best Novel Edgar finalist, began his six-book Simeon Grist series with this white-knuckle mystery. Simeon Grist knows L.A. inside and out--the sex for sale, the chic seductions, every rip-off from City Hall to Venice. So when he's hired by a Hollywood recording company to shadow one Sally Oldfield, suspected of... See More

Length: 488 Pages (540 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Everything But The Squeal (Simeon Grist #2) (Simeon Grist Mystery Book 3)

by Timothy Hallinan (Hallinan Consulting)

(46 reviews)

Robert B. Parker and Robert Crais fans will enjoy 2011 "Best Novel" nominee Hallinan's overeducated private eye, Simeon Grist. In the second book in Hallinan's cult series, originally published in the 1990s, Grist takes a case, that leads him to the phantom neighborhoods of L.A.'s lost children. Missing thirteen-year-old Aimee Sorrell, who ran all the way from Kansas to be a star. But Aimee's... See More

Length: 352 Pages (981 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Crimespree Magazine #63

by Chris Holm (Down & Out Books)

Crimespree Magazine #63 features an interview of Timothy Hallinan by Jon Jordan. Plus you get interviews of Frank De Blase by Jon Jordan, Nadine Nettmann by Erica Ruth Neubauer, Alex Grecian by Kate Malmon, April Henry by Crimespree, and Frank DiMatteo by Dave Wahlman. Matthew David Brozik delivers a short story called "Making Partner." Todd Robinson talks about life after ThugLit, and... See More

Length: 183 Pages (1,090 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Timothy Hallinan's Cult Classic Simeon Grist Mysteries Volume 1: Box Set 2:: "Incinerator," "The Man With No Time," and "The Bone Polisher." (The Simeon Grist Mysteries Boxed Sets)

by Timothy Hallinan (Timothy Hallinan)

(2 reviews)

Readers of Timothy Hallinan's two current series, the award-winningJunior Bender Mysteries and the Poke Rafferty Bangkok Thrillers, may not be familiar with his first series, written between 1989 and 1995. Simeon Grist is a semi-slacker with an old cabin in Topanga Canyon, a string of useless college degrees and no sense of the direction he wants his life to take. He becomes a private eye after... See More

Length: 853 Pages (7,290 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Skin Deep (Simeon Grist #3) (Simeon Grist Mystery Book 1)

by Timothy Hallinan (Hallinan Consulting, LLC)

(49 reviews)

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION The six Simeon Grist private-eye novels by 2011 Edgar and Macavity Award nominee Timothy Hallinan have become cult favorites and are now available fot the first time since the 1990s. For a fee so big he can't turn it down, Grist is hired to watchdog the kind of guy he'd usually prefer to throw through the nearest window. Toby Vane is the golden boy of prime-time TV, whose... See More

Length: 318 Pages (532 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Pulped: A Simeon Grist Novel

by Timothy Hallinan (Hallinan Consulting LLC)

(137 reviews)

Simeon Grist has been out of print for 20 years, and he's pissed off. his few remaining readers are being murdered... and there's this girl. "A triumph of imagination." - Edgar winner Bruce DeSilva -------------------- Back in the 1990s, award-winning author Timothy Hallinan wrote six highly-praised private eye novels featuring a Topanga Canyon slacker named Simeon Grist. They didn't sell. And... See More

Length: 375 Pages (4,170 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Incinerator (Simeon Grist #4) (Simeon Grist Mystery)

by Timothy Hallinan (Hallinan Consulting, LLC)

(113 reviews)

2011 Edgar and Macavity nominee Timothy Hallinan's six novels featuring erudite Los Angeles private eye Simeon Grist have become cult favorites and are now available for the first time since the 1990s. In the fourth book, INCINERATOR, Grist comes up against his most terrifying adversary, a madman who's setting fire to the homeless. As Simeon is drawn into the case - very much against his will... See More

Length: 276 Pages (783 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

The Bone Polisher (Simeon Grist #6) (Simeon Grist Mystery)

by Timothy Hallinan (Hallinan Consulting, LLC)

(95 reviews)

SIX IS THE CHARM: The six Simeon Grist private-eye novels by Edgar and Macavity Award nominee Timothy Hallinan have become cult favorites and are now available for the first time since the 1990s. The sixth in the series, THE BONE POLISHER, earned starred reviews all around. It takes place in the West Hollywood of 1995, where the community is shaken by the brutal killing of an older man who was... See More

Length: 288 Pages (651 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled