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    A Shroud for Aquarius
    A Shroud for Aquarius
    A Shroud for Aquarius
    Audiobook5 hours

    A Shroud for Aquarius

    Written by Max Allan Collins

    Narrated by Dan John Miller

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The sixties are dead…and so is Ginnie Mullens. She was many things—free spirit, flower child, entrepreneur, gambler—but first and foremost she was mystery writer Mallory’s friend and confidant since childhood. So Mallory understands when Sheriff Brennan drags him out of bed in the dead of night and leads him to the last place he ever wanted to go: the scene of Ginnie’s last breath.

    A dead woman clutching the gun that killed her may lead to an official ruling of suicide, but Mallory’s not ruling out murder. Driven by a gaping hole in his heart and a fierce code of honor, he’s willing to risk everything to close the book on this one. Then he’ll throw the book with both hands at whoever wrote Ginnie’s obituary in spilled blood.

    Once upon a time, Ginnie hurt Mallory deeply, and he wasn’t the only one. But while he finally forgave her, the same can’t be said for the trail of bitter lovers that stretches back to high school. Pounding the pavement from Port City to Iowa City to Vegas—with detours down memory lane along the way—Mallory is forced to pull back the shroud on a life he only thought he knew…and never realized he couldn’t save.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 11, 2012
    ISBN9781469248301
    A Shroud for Aquarius
    Author

    Max Allan Collins

    <p>Max Allan Collins is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. He is the author of the Shamus Award-winning Nathan Heller thrillers and the graphic novel <em>Road to Perdition</em>, basis of the Academy Award-winning film starring Tom Hanks. His innovative Quarry novels led to a 2016 Cinemax series. He has completed a dozen posthumous Mickey Spillane mysteries, and wrote the syndicated <em>Dick Tracy</em> series for more than fifteen years. His one-man show, <em>Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life</em>, was an Edgar Award finalist. He lives in Iowa.</p>

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    • 4/5
      The mystery, written in the 1980s, with a Vietnam vet detective protagonist, has been recently re-released, at least in digital form. The mystery itself, featuring the 'suicide' of an old, close friend of the detectives, is fine - the author sets up the suspects and knocks them down one by one until the real murderer's hand is forced. But what lifted the story for me to a greater level of enjoyment was the love interest. It's handled so plausibly and charmingly that I kind of loved the book just for that.
    • 3/5
      Quick read, mindless fun.