About the Author:
Tim Maleeny is the Macavity Award-winning author of Stealing the Dragon, a novel Lee Child called ''a perfect thriller debut,'' Beating the Babushka, and, most recently, Greasing the Piata. Jump is his new standalone thriller. Maleeny lives and writes in San Francisco.
From AudioFile:
A diverse group of apartment dwellers in San Francisco suddenly learns that their landlord has jumped to his death. Sam, a widower and recently retired cop, finds himself trying to solve the crime by getting to know his fellow tenants. The story's characters give life to a different and sometimes-funny police procedural, but it's narrator Tom Weiner's voices that keep listeners engaged. Weiner sounds like a cast of 20 as he navigates amid gravelly voiced Sam and his neighbors: two female African-American entrepreneurs, a no-nonsense elderly woman, a middle-aged singer, and, best of all, two drug-dealing but likable brothers. There are also assorted villains and minor characters, all creatively narrated. Never once does Weiner confuse a voice, despite the characters' varied ages, vocal personalities, and ethnicities. M.B. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
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