Crooked Little Vein
A Novel
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Todd McLaren
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By:
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Warren Ellis
About this listen
Full of mind-bending style and packed with a wild cast of characters, Crooked Little Vein infuses Robert B. Parker with Kurt Vonnegut and the madness of the graphic-novel world. A surprisingly surreal treat, it will appeal to hardcore comic fans, mystery aficionados, and anybody looking for a riotous adventure.
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Disillusioned newspaper reporter-turned-private detective Ray Dudgeon doesn't want to save the world; he just wants to do an honest job well. But when doing an honest job threatens society's most powerful and corrupt, Ray's odds of survival make for a sucker's bet.
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Quintessentially Chicago
- By Eva Gannon on 09-21-09
By: Sean Chercover
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Beneath the Skin
- The Sam Hunter Case Files
- By: Jonathan Maberry
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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Sam Hunter is a bit of an animal. He's a former Twin Cities cop who lost his badge because of excessive force. Abusive husbands, child molesters, and other lowlifes wound up looking like they'd been mauled by a dog...or a wolf. Now Sam's a low-rent PI in Philadelphia. He takes the kinds of cases no one wants. His clients are usually on the fringes of society. The kind who are prey for all manner of predators - human and otherwise.
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SO, CLICHE I ALMOST LAUGHED
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 10-10-17
By: Jonathan Maberry
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Nightfall
- Nightingale, Book 1
- By: Stephen Leather
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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Uttered by the abusive father of a nine-year-old girl, that phrase ended Jack’s career as a police negotiator and has been haunting him ever since. Now that he is a struggling private detective, those words return with a vengeance when he inherits a mansion - and some terrifying information. Apparently Jack’s soul was sold at birth, and a devil will come to claim it on his thirty-third birthday just weeks away. It’s a hard pill to swallow, given that Jack doesn’t believe in hell (heaven, either).
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I Quite Liked the Story and Narration
- By Sires on 06-18-12
By: Stephen Leather
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The Monkey's Raincoat
- An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel, Book 1
- By: Robert Crais
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Meet Elvis Cole, L.A. private eye.... He quotes Jiminy Cricket and carries a .38. He's a literate, wisecracking Vietnam vet who is determined never to grow up.
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Slaughtered by sickeningly awful reader
- By Lehua of Pacifica on 06-11-09
By: Robert Crais
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A Drink Before the War
- By: Dennis Lehane
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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With novels like Mystic River and Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane has dramatically altered the landscape of the crime thriller—while boldly overstepping the boundaries that have long separated mystery from literature. Now two of his sensational early novels have been combined in a single volume—two gritty and mesmerizing masterworks of suspense featuring the private eye duo of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro.
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White Bread
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 06-30-12
By: Dennis Lehane
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Pulp
- By: Charles Bukowski
- Narrated by: Christian Baskous
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.
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Bukowskis worst.......still pretty good
- By GarageGator561 on 10-29-13
By: Charles Bukowski
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The Ritual Bath
- The First Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novel
- By: Faye Kellerman
- Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.
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Good Read
- By Eva Gannon on 08-21-08
By: Faye Kellerman
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The Drop
- By: Dennis Lehane
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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Three days after Christmas, a lonely bartender looking for a reason to live rescues an abused puppy from a trash can and meets a damaged woman looking for something to believe in. As their relationship grows, they cross paths with the Chechen mafia; a man grown dangerous with age and thwarted hopes; two hapless stick-up artists; a very curious cop; and the original owner of the puppy, who wants his dog bac.k…
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THAT IS LIFE,
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 12-06-14
By: Dennis Lehane
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- shawn
- 01-14-08
Ignore the prude
This book was hilarious. Yes, there are some cringe-worthy moments but it was all in good fun. The narrator was excellent. I lost a lot of sleep with this book because i could not stop listening to it.
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- Cather
- 02-03-08
Enjoyable.
This is not the greatest book in the world. There are plot holes and contrivances that are just staggering, and sometimes it seems like excuses to show weird things. But the overall package is still a lot of fun, with plenty of laugh out loud moments.
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- Natasha Easton
- 03-16-21
what an adventure!
that was definitely a roller coaster of different kinds of things. I enjoyed it, it definitely had its moments.
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- jgalt2u
- 08-02-13
The wonders of being a sh*t Magnet
I loved this book. The wonders of being a sh*t magnet is the talent of the main character. The people this guy attacks are bottom feeders. The fact that people tell this guy stuff that should never be told puts this guy in some situations that are hilarious. The dialog with the serial killer on a plane had me laughing out loud for at least a minute.
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- Aaron Peterson
- 04-07-21
A weird trip worth the vulgarity
This boom isn’t for everyone. Many people choose to ignore the underbelly of the world we live in but this book takes it on in an interesting thriller/mystery kind of way. If you familiar with the work of Chuck Palahniuk, this will feel like a stem off that tree dark, twisted tree. The voicing has just enough nuance to tell the characters apart without sounds cartoonish and lends a genuinity to their portrayal.
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- Hussain Shishtari
- 03-25-15
One of the funniest and disturbing novel ls I read
When I first learned about this book, I was told it wasn't for the light hearted, and boy was that true. It's simple, funny and a bit cartoonish, in a good way.
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WOW!
It's has been a few month since I have listened to this book and it has stuck with me like few books have. Sometimes I laugh out loud, others I almost gag. This book was an experience. Good, bad and ugly. I would highly recommend this book if you have a sense of humor and aren't easily offended - well, even if you aren't easily offended this book will probably test your limits. I remember exactly where I was driving when I actually gagged because of a disgusting sexual perversion described in the book. So, in all fairness, be careful because this book is graphic and pretty hardcore - but if you can keep it in perspective - it is a pretty good experience. I have been excitedly - but cautiously - waiting for the next novel.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-19-24
Dinosaur porn?
It feels like if William S Burrows decided to rewrite national treasure as a detective noir novel. I definitely liked it lots of fun.
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- Richard
- 09-24-19
It's aight
The characters and premise are interesting. If it has subtext, then it's all over the place. Best enjoyed at face value.
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- Thomas G
- 04-05-16
strange tale for strange times
feel like culture is getting hyperbolically weirder, meanwhile you're feeling more conservative and having trouble finding your place in the world. Then, this book is for you.
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