Timothy Hallinan
1) Crashed
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Master thief Junior Bender is blackmailed by a powerful crime boss into finding out who is causing all the problems on the set of his pornographic film that features a destitute and strung-out former child star.
Author
Series
Poke Rafferty thriller volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Seeking to retire and settle down with his girlfriend and newly adopted daughter, travel writer Poke Rafferty unexpectedly meets up with his long-lost father, who asks for his help in safeguarding a stolen cache of priceless rubies and forged identity papers.
Author
Series
Junior Bender mystery volume 2
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
L.A. 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 he is being bullied into proving aging music industry mogul Vinnie DiGaudio is innocent of the murder of a nasty tabloid journalist he'd threatened to kill...
Author
Series
Poke Rafferty thriller volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The quiet Bangkok family life of American travel-writer Poke Rafferty, wife Rose, and daughter Miaow is threatened when a man from Rose's past forces Poke to uncover the whole truth about his wife's former life in a red-light district.
5) Nighttown
Author
Series
Junior Bender mystery volume 7
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender has a rule about never taking a job that pays too well--in the criminal underworld, if someone is offering you more money than a job is worth, someone is going to end up dead. But he's bending his rule this one time because he and his girlfriend, Ronnie, are in desperate need of cash so they can hire a top-notch kidnapper to snatch Ronnie's two-year-old son back from her evil ex. The whole thing is pretty complicated,...
Author
Series
Poke Rafferty thriller volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Finding himself embracing domestic life in Bangkok in spite of his love for adventurous travel, writer Poke Rafferty has his world thrown into turmoil by a troubled homeless youth, a distraught woman's missing uncle, and a blackmailing thief.
Author
Series
Poke Rafferty thriller volume 5
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Timothy Hallinan brings his critically acclaimed Poke Rafferty thriller series set in Thailand into the Soho Crime family. 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. That night, Rafferty is interrogated by Thai secret agents who demand to know what the...
8) King maybe
Author
Series
Junior Bender mystery volume 5
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender is in the middle of burgling a house and has just gotten his hands on one of the world's rarest stamps when the job goes terrifically wrong. After barely escaping, Junior realizes the danger is far from over. He's gotten himself on the wrong side of a man whose name is synonymous with violence, and to save his own skin he's set off a chain reaction of blackmail, strong-arming, and escalating crime. To pay off his...
Author
Series
Junior Bender mystery volume 3
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Hollywood mob boss-turned-movie king Irwin Dressler is ninety-three years old, but Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender is quaking in his boots when Dressler's henchmen haul him in for a meeting. Dressler wants Junior to solve a crime committed more than sixty years ago: once-famous starlet Dolores La Marr had her career destroyed after compromising photos were taken of her at a Las Vegas party. Dressler wants justice for Dolores and the shining career...
10) Fools' river
Author
Series
Poke Rafferty thriller volume 8
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The two most difficult days in Bangkok writer Poke Rafferty's life begin with an emergency visit from Edward Dell, the almost-boyfriend of his teenage daughter, Maiow. The boy's father, Buddy, a late-middle-aged womanizer who has moved to Bangkok for happy hunting, has disappeared, and money is being siphoned out of his bank and credit card accounts. It soon becomes apparent that Buddy is in the hands of a pair of killers who prey on Bangkok's "sexpats";...
12) Rock of ages
Author
Series
Junior Bender mystery volume 8
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Four of Dressler's old gangster colleagues have put together a national tour of once-popular rock bands they own a piece of: three nights of concerts by guys (and a few gals) who were big shots back in the 1960s and 1970s, and who are now hoping for one more gasp of glory with this nostalgia exhibition. The Rock of Ages tour has proved itself to be anything but a love fest: plenty of the bandmates have been feuding for forty years, and-perhaps unsurprisingly-drugs...
13) Street music
Author
Series
Poke Rafferty thriller volume 9
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Poke Rafferty's hand-made intercultural family is disrupted in unexpectedly complicated ways by the birth of his son, littering their small Bangkok apartment with emotional land mines. At the same time, the most cantankerous member of the small gang of Old Bangkok Hands who hang out at The Expat Bar suddenly goes missing under suspicious circumstances. Engaged in the search for the missing American and the challenges of life with a newborn, Rafferty...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"It's the week before Christmas in Tinsel Town, and the Edgerton Mall isn't exactly full of holiday cheer, despite its two Santas. 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. Enter burglar Junior Bender, the unwilling fixer for LA's various underworld bosses. The murderous Russian gangster who owns the mall hires Junior to look into the shoplifting...
15) For the dead
Author
Series
Poke Rafferty thriller volume 6
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Poke Rafferty is happier than he's ever been. He's financially solvent, his family is about to grow larger, and his adopted Thai daughter, Miaow, seems to have settled in at junior high school. All that is endangered when Miaow and her boyfriend, Andrew, buy a stolen iPhone from a shady vendor and discover photographs of two dead police officers on it--disgraced officers, violently murdered to avenge the long-dead. Surrounding the murder investigation...
Author
Series
Poke Rafferty thriller volume 7
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Talkative stranger Arthur Varney gains the trust of Poke Rafferty's friends in Bangkok in an attempt to obtain money that Poke does not have, and locate someone whom Poke is unwilling to hand over.
17) Herbie's game
Author
Series
Junior Bender mystery volume 4
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"It's everyday business when Wattles, the San Fernando Valley's top 'executive crook, ' sets up a hit. He establishes a chain of criminals to pass along the instructions and the money, thereby ensuring that the hitter doesn't know who hired him. Then one day Wattles finds his office safe open and a single item missing: the piece of paper on which he has written the names of the crooks in the chain. When people associated with the chain begin to pop...
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Nine mall Santas must find the imposter among them. An elderly lady seeks peace from her murderously loud neighbors at Christmastime. A young woman receives a mysterious invitation to Christmas dinner with a stranger. Niccolò Machiavelli sets out to save an Italian city. Sherlock Holmes's one-time nemesis Irene Adler finds herself in an unexpected tangle in Paris while on a routine espionage assignment. Jane Austen searches for the Dowager Duchess...