Keith Szarabajka

Timothy Hallinan's private eye Simeon Grist has gone out of print and he's pissed about it. Simeon thought he was living a good life-solving mysteries, falling in and out of love, risking life and limb to do the right thing. Then the last Simeon Grist mystery was pulped to make newsprint, and he woke up in a room where nothing ever changed except his sense of who he was: his entire existence was a work of fiction that the real world was in the process...

Edgar and Macavity Award nominee Timothy Hallinan's Simeon Grist private-eye novels have become cult favorites. This sixth series installment takes place in the West Hollywood of 1995, where the community is shaken by the brutal killing of an older man who was widely loved for his generosity and kindness. In a time when the police were largely indifferent to crimes against gay people, Simeon is hired to catch the murderer-and finds himself up against...

Edgar Award finalist Timothy Hallinan continues his six-book Simeon Grist series with this white-knuckle mystery-a must-listen for fans of Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels. Simeon Grist knows LA 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 embezzlement, Grist discovers she's entangled in the Church of the...