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Title details for Greasing the Pinata by Tim Maleeny - Available

Greasing the Pinata

A Cape Weathers Investigation

#3 in series

by Tim Maleeny
Armando Durán
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A former U.S. senator vanishes days after his son goes missing. When they’re both found dead on a golf course in Mexico with body parts missing, the senator’s estranged daughter Rebecca resolves to discover what happened. When it looks like the daughter may become the next victim, private investigator Cape Weathers takes up the case.

Cape asks his deadly companion Sally, trained by the Hong Kong Triads, to watch his back as he stumbles onto a conspiracy that leads from corporate boardrooms in San Francisco to strongholds in Mexico. While Cape manages to get kidnapped, steal from the mob, piss off the DEA, and confound a computer genius, he and Sally confront a killer determined to bury the past, along with anyone trying to dig it up.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Cape Weathers Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    December 1, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781481583619
      • File size: 263394 KB
      • Duration: 09:08:44

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 1, 2008
      Maleeny smoothly mixes wry humor and a serious plot without sacrificing either in his third Cape Weathers mystery (after 2007's Beating the Babushka
      ). When Jim Dobbins, a recently retired California state senator, and his drug-addict son, Danny, disappear in Mexico, Dobbins's estranged daughter hires San Francisco reporter-turned-PI Weathers to find them. Weathers journeys south of the border only to learn that the mutilated bodies of father and son have surfaced in a Puerto Vallarte golf course's alligator-infested pond. Aided by his Triad-trained associate, Sally Mei, Weathers pursues a case that reaches from a Mexican drug cartel to the San Francisco mob as well as the city's boardrooms. An appealing hero, well-crafted villains, snappy dialogue and an energetic plot show that Maleeny, while not quite in the same league as Robert Crais or Laura Lippman, is a definite contender in the private detective subgenre.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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