The Fame Thief: Junior Bender #3

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There aren't many people brave enough to say no to Irwin Dressler, Hollwood's scariest mob boss-turned-movie king. Even though Dressler is 93 years old, LA burglar Junior Bender is quaking in his boots when Dessler's henchmen haul him in for meeting. Dessler wants Junior to solve a 'crime' he believes was committed more than 70 years ago. As Junior starts digging he finds that some vendettas never die. They only get more dangerous.

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Praise for the Junior Bender Series

"Timothy Hallinan's The Fame Thief has everything I've come to expect in a Hallinan novel: indelible, complexcharacters, fantastic plot, and moments of hold-your-breath suspense."
Charlaine Harris, author of the New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series

A modern-day successor to Raymond Chandler.
Los Angeles Daily News

"If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan. The Edgar nominee's laugh-out-loud new crime series featuring Hollywood burglar-turned-private eye Junior Bender has breakout written all over it... A must-read."
Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times bestselling author of One Was a Soldier

"Junior Bender is todays Los Angeles as Raymond Chandler might have written it. Tim [Hallinan] is a master at tossing out the kind of hard-boiled lines that I wish I thought of first."
Bruce DeSilva, Macavity & Edgar Award-winning author of Rogue Island

This is Hallinan at the top of his game. It's laugh-out-loud funny without ever losing any of its mystery. Its a whole new style and I love it. Junior Bendera crook with a heart of goldis one of Hallinan's most appealing heroes, rich with invention, and brimming with classic wit. I cant recommend it highly enough.
Shadoe Stevens, Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Hallinan is a stunning talent.
Gregg Hurwitz, author of They're Watchingss

Author Bio

Timothy Hallinan has been nominated for the Edgar, Nero, Shamus, and Macavity awards. He is the author of twenty widely praised books, including The Fear Artist, For the Dead, The Hot Countries, Fools' River, Crashed, Little Elvises, Herbie's Game (which won the Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery), King Maybe, and Fields Where They Lay. After years of working in the television and music industries, he now writes full-time. He has homes in California and Thailand.