Fields Where They Lay: A Junior Bender Holiday Mystery
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It's three days until Christmas and Junior Bender, Hollywood's fast-talking 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 Bender, divorced father of one and burglar extraordinaire, finds himself stuck inside the Edgerton Mall, and not just as a last-minute shopper (though he is that too). Edgerton isn't exactly the epicenter of holiday cheer, despite its two Santas, canned Christmas music, chintzy bows, and festive lights. The mall is a fossil of an industry in decline; many of its stores are closed, and to make matters worse, there is a rampant shoplifting problem.
The murderous Russian mobster who owns the place has decided it takes a thief to catch a thief and hires Junior—under threat—to solve the shoplifting problem for him. But Junior's surveillance operation doesn't go well: as Christmas Eve approaches, two people are dead and it's obvious that shoplifting is the least of the mall's problems. To prevent further deaths, possibly including his own, Junior must confront his dread of Christmas—both present and past.
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Timothy Hallinan. (2016). Fields Where They Lay: A Junior Bender Holiday Mystery. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Timothy Hallinan. 2016. Fields Where They Lay: A Junior Bender Holiday Mystery. Blackstone Publishing.
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MLA Citation (style guide)Timothy Hallinan. Fields Where They Lay: A Junior Bender Holiday Mystery. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2016.
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The halls are decked, the deck is stacked, and here comes that jolly old elf. Junior Bender, divorced father of one and burglar extraordinaire, finds himself stuck inside the Edgerton Mall, and not just as a last-minute shopper (though he is that too). Edgerton isn't exactly the epicenter of holiday cheer, despite its two Santas, canned Christmas music, chintzy bows, and festive lights. The mall is a fossil of an industry in decline; many of its stores are closed, and to make matters worse, there is a rampant shoplifting problem.
The murderous Russian mobster who owns the place has decided it takes a thief to catch a thief and hires Junior—under threat—to solve the shoplifting problem for him. But Junior's surveillance operation doesn't go well: as Christmas Eve approaches, two people are dead and it's obvious that shoplifting is the least of the mall's problems. To prevent further deaths, possibly including his own, Junior must confront his dread of Christmas—both present and past.
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Starred review from October 17, 2016
Edgar-finalist Hallinan deserves to win an Edgar for his ingeniously plotted, often hilarious sixth Junior Bender novel (after King Maybe). Junior, a thief who has “probably stolen more things than most people own,” owes a favor to a San Fernando Valley, Calif., crime boss, and agrees to work for a scary Russian thug who has adopted the name Tip Poindexter. The Edgerton Mall, which Tip owns, has recently experienced a dramatic spike in shoplifting, and Tip demands that Junior find out why. The assignment is depressing for Junior, since it comes just days before Christmas, which has always been an emotionally trying holiday for him. The investigation pays off with a brilliant solution that few will anticipate, and the sophisticated story line is only one of the book’s highlights. Another is the masterly way in which Hallinan creates his own world-weary Chandlerian narrative voice (a golf club Junior visits is “one of the Valley’s shiny new gathering places for people whose money was recently acquired and whose manners hadn’t yet been sanded down into the smooth indifference that marks multiple generations of wealth”). Readers will eagerly await Junior’s next adventure. Agent: Bob Mecoy, Bob Mecoy Literary.
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Starred review from January 30, 2017
Hallinan’s sixth addition to his chronicles of likable professional thief Junior Bender takes place just before Christmas, but it’s a merry present to be opened at any time of the year. Reader Berkrot’s tough-but-smart delivery once again proves a fine match for the glib, genial, surprisingly moral Junior. Here, he tells us of being hired, mainly against his will, by a ruthless Russian mobster who goes by the name Tip Poindexter and wants Junior to find out why his suburban mall is suffering an uptick in shoplifting. With romantic problems adding to his general holiday gloom, Junior feels stuck in the sad collection of fading shops. The continuing thefts and a couple of murders don’t improve morale. Berkrot effectively captures Junior’s downbeat despair and witty, cynical commentary on his surroundings; Poindexter’s a soft, slightly accented hiss; and the distinct voices of the occupants of the mall, like the garrulous, excitable security guard Wally. Shlomo Semple, hired by the mall to dress as Santa, contributes an ironic story of his own involving his father’s escape from Nazi soldiers during WWII that’s so fascinating and so brilliantly enacted by Berkrot that it almost steals the novel. A Soho Crime hardcover.
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