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Title details for Always Say Goodbye by Stuart M. Kaminsky - Available

Always Say Goodbye

#5 in series

by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Michael McConnohie
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Four years ago Lew Fonesca's wife was struck and killed in a hit-and-run within sight of their apartment. He fled Chicago, driving mindlessly until his car gave up the ghost in Sarasota, FL. Working from a cheap office behind the Dairy Queen on Highway 301, he makes a threadbare living as a process server and savors his clinical depression like a fine wine. Then his therapist, who alternately acts as his conscience and his sparring partner, tells him it's time he goes back to Chicago and closes the door to the past so that he can finally get on with the rest of his life. Lew hates to admit it, but he's beginning to see her point. So Lew returns to his home town, to friends and family...and to a grief that threatens to engulf him. He's resolved to dig until he finds out who killed his wife. In doing so, he'll uncover both sweet and painful memories of his past. He'll also confront a murderer who'll not hesitate to kill again to make sure hidden secrets stay buried.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Lew Fonesca Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    May 1, 2007

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792749530
      • File size: 209060 KB
      • Duration: 07:15:32

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Ever since his wife was killed four years ago, Lew Fonesca has defined himself by grief and depression. In the first four books in this series, Fonesca worked as a process server in Sarasota, Florida. But in this fifth adventure, he finally returns to Chicago to track down his wife's killer. Michael McConnohie delivers the narrative in a nondescript documentary style. But he positively shines in the way he breathes life into Kaminsky's characters: Fonesca's tow-truck driver brother-in-law, the Holocaust survivor authoress, the agoraphobic Greek hit man, the short but tough black detective. All these characters help transform this story of tragedy and redemption into a work that is profound and entertaining but never maudlin. Kaminsky's characters are multidimensional and textured, and McConnohie seamlessly gives them color and movement. S.E.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 2, 2006
      In MWA Grand Master Kaminsky's psychologically layered fifth Lew Fonesca mystery (after 2005's Denial
      ), the Sarasota, Fla., process server and occasional PI emerges from his clinical depression to start tracking down the hit-and-run driver who killed his wife, Catherine, in Chicago four years earlier. But moments after his tow-truck-driver brother-in-law, Franco, picks him up at Midway Airport, they realize a car is following them. Digging up the past proves to be dangerous work, as Lew finds himself caught between two warring assassins-for-hire who believe Catherine, a prosecutor, had compiled a file of evidence against them and that Lew might know of its existence. Kaminsky paves Lew's road from depression to acceptance of Catherine's death with sufficient bumps and frissons to keep readers hurtling along to the very end.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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