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    The Chicago Way

    Written by Michael Harvey

    Narrated by Stephen Hoye

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From the co-creator and executive producer of the television show Cold Case Files, a fast-paced, stylish murder mystery featuring a tough-talking Irish cop turned private investigator who does for the city of Chicago what Elmore Leonard did for Detroit and Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles.

    Chicago private investigator Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner, John Gibbons, to help solve an eight-year-old rape and battery case, a case it turns out his old friend was once ordered to forget. When Gibbons turns up dead on Navy Pier, Kelly enlists a team of his savviest colleagues to connect the dots between the recent murder and the cold case it revived: Diane Lindsay, a television reporter whose relationship with Kelly is not strictly professional; his best friend from childhood, Nicole Andrews, a forensic DNA expert; Nicole's boyfriend, Vince Rodriguez, a detective with a special interest in rape cases; and Bennett Davis from the DA's office, a friend since Kelly's days on the force. To close the case, Kelly will have to face the mob, a serial killer, his own double-crossing friends, and the mean streets of the city he loves.

    Ferociously plotted and crackling with wit, The Chicago Way is first-rate suspense steeped in the glorious, gritty atmosphere of a great city: a marvelous debut.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 21, 2007
    ISBN9780739354674
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    The Chicago Way
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    Michael Harvey

    Michael Harvey is the author of seven previous novels, including Brighton and The Chicago Way. He’s also a journalist and documentarian whose work has won multiple News & Documentary Emmys, two Primetime Emmy nominations, and an Academy Award nomination. Raised in Boston, he now lives in Chicago.

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    Reviews for The Chicago Way

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    • 3/5
      This was not my typical mystery read (being in the noir style), and I loved it anyway. It's always fun to find a book outside my "comfort zone" that I really enjoy. This one was a recommendation from my dad.Michael Kelly is a former cop turned private detective who is hired to solve a cold case. But this is a much more complicated case than first appears, with repercussions stretching all the way to the present.Harvey knows how to write about a cold case. He was the executive producer of a great true crime show, Cold Case Files. This is a book full of twists and turns, especially a huge twist at the end that I did not see coming.
    • 3/5
      Picked this up during week long visit to Chicago in early summer 2013. Loved the dialogue and story twists. Author's lineage as co-creator of Cold Case Files surfaces throughout. Oddly, I did not get hooked on the TV show, but his writing is a very enjoyable guilty pleasure. Looking forward to reading his next one.
    • 3/5
      This detective novel is set in my hometown. Although he nailed the locations throughout the city, the novel is simplistic. It bases much of its plot on real Chicagoans. CBS news reporter John Drummond is John Donovan who knows all there is to know about a character based on John Wayne Gacy. The plot deviates from reality but is fairly obvious.
    • 3/5
      This one is an entry in the vast array of Raymond Chandler-type novels. It has all the elements - a tough-guy hero with a smart mouth, brutal and often corrupt cops, a mystery from the past, a selection of broken and lonely people, and some pretty and promiscuous women.The story is perfectly readable but in emulating the style of a master it is always going to fall short in much the same way as Robert Parker's Spenser novels also miss the mark. All the way through reading it I felt that there was something missing - possibly the spark of originality.Readable but not remarkable.
    • 3/5
      This book is funnily enough set in Chicago, the main character is Michael Kelly an ex copper now working as a private eye. He is asked to help with a cold case of rape, then people start turning up dead. Good book this, Kelly with some help of his various freinds manage to unravel this case. This is the first novel Michael Harvey has written I will look out for more of these.
    • 3/5
      Picked this one because it's set in my hometown (I no longer live there) and I have to admit the author knows the city very well, especially the near North side around Wrigley Field, right down to the Dunkin' Dougnuts at Belmont and Clark. One caveat, he has a house with a driveway in the Portage Park neighborhood. I grew up near there and can't remember one. You can count on one hand the houses with driveways on the Northwest Side; you either park on the street or get into the garage from the alley.As for the story, it was mechanical and unconvincing. But, thanks to the author for bringing back home for a few days.
    • 2/5
      This was a very disappointing book. I would not have finished reading it except that it was for a book club. At the beginning Harvey seemed to want to be Raymond Chandler and have his detective speak as if he was Bogart. Fortunately that didn't last very long. The plot and characters were pretty cliche. There was a twist at the end but nothing in the story left clues as to what would happen. I think that a good mystery leaves clues so that when the story ends, the reader can see that they might have figured out the mystery if they had paid more attention to the clues given. I think there are many other authors who write far better stories in this genre.
    • 4/5
      "Hello, Michael."Gibbons had been retired from the force five years now. I hadn't seen him in four, but it didn't matter. We had some history. He shook off the rain and threw a chair toward my desk. He sat down as if he belonged there and always had. I put the Cubs away, pulled open the bottom drawer, and found a bottle of Powers Irish. John took it straight. Just to be sociable, I gave Sir Earl a jolt. "What's up, John?"He hesitated. For the first time I noticed his suit, uncomfortably cheap, and his tie, a clip-on. In his hands he twisted a soft felt hat."Got a case for you, Michael."He always called me Michael, which was okay since that was my name.So begins Michael Harvey's classic hard-boiled set in present day Chicago. Despite PowerBooks and DNA testing, this detective novel does it old school. Dangerous dames who aren't who they say they are, deadly secrets and a detective who trades wisecracks with gun-toting thugs. John always had a weakness for them. Women, that is. It's been my experience if you have that sort of weakness, the younger ones tend only to aggravate the situation.Kelly's ex-partner shows up asking him to look into a long ago rape case, one that was never solved and now even the case files are missing along with much of the physical evidence. The victim wants answers, but somebody is determined to silence anyone involved. The book loses a little of its intensity toward the end and I'm not quite convinced of Kelly's reasoning, but it was a fun ride.
    • 3/5
      Not bad, if you like the ex-cop turned detective type thing with plenty of gore. It did have a lot of Chicago references, which was cool.
    • 3/5
      Not bad, if you like the ex-cop turned detective type thing with plenty of gore. It did have a lot of Chicago references, which was cool.
    • 4/5
      A great debut and for me reminiscent of authors such as Chandler (granted I'm not particularly au fait with Chandler), The lead character Kelly hints at a great back story and there are enough twists and turns in the storyline to keep you guessing.
    • 4/5
      It may be Michael Harvey's debut novel, but it reads like a classic crime story. I hadn't intended to start a new book today; I intended even less to finish it. I picked up The Chicago Way as a quick distraction, imagining that I would read a few pages and then put it down for a few years until I had the time again. Instead, I found myself flying through the pages and finishing the book in a few hours.Michael Kelly, a former Chicago cop and current private detective, is hired by his old partner to work on an almost decade-old rape case. Almost immediately after Kelly is hired, however, his partner is found dead and the real mystery begins. This was satisfying for all the reasons that I read mysteries. The characters were intriguing and engaging. The mystery was quick yet intricate enough to not be obvious. The city was dark and gritty. There was a damsel in distress, and a dark, brooding detective with a history of his own. The perfect mystery for an afternoon of rain and tea.Recommend to anyone who enjoys a mystery.
    • 3/5
      new P.i. series set in Chicago; well-written, possibly interesting
    • 3/5
      The Chicago Way is the first in what I assume will be a series. If so, Harvey should do pretty well. The first book usually sets the scene for the series and introduces the character, without developing him too much. That happens over the course of the series. Such was the case for this book, which introduced P.I. Michael Kelly but didn’t manage to flesh him out beyond the surface layer. Although the story is well told and the ending held more than one surprise for me, it didn’t break any new ground for the genre. And I think Harvey made a mistake in killing off one particular character too soon. This was just a good story, well told.
    • 4/5
      had the pleasure of meeting this author several years ago at a “meet and greet” at my library. He was delightful. I like his breezy writing style. Initially it seemed like he was trying too hard to be Raymond Chandler, but after the first few chapters he relaxed into the story. The plot may have been a bit predictable, but the local color is excellent. I actually liked the characters and did not find that the plot strained the limits of credibility. I look forward to the next one.
    • 4/5
      At first I thought this book was just an average hard-boiled detective novel. My favorite part was when one of my favorite true crime shows (Cold Case Files) was mentioned since the author was a co-creator of the series. I thought I had easily figured out who was behind the mystery. Then I looked down at my audiobook and realized I still had an hour of listening left. Harvey had a few twists and turns to throw my way. I enjoyed the story, and will definitely read more in the series.
    • 3/5
      Ably read by Stephen Hoye who brings just the right amount of bemused detachment and cynicism to the character. Ex-cop Michael Kelly is now a P.I. whose former partner shows up at his door and tells about a case he wants to hire Kelly to work on, a rape that was being covered up by his superiors.

      Let me say that while I liked this book, there were some things that just didn’t fit or seemed implausible: the blackmail, the raped hooker from an original crime, the killings that seemed to be, in the end, totally unnecessary. Many of these issues left me with a feeling that it could have been done with more subtlety. The prose is good and the dialogue often witty, but it’s not enough to carry the story.

      One thing that makes this book unique in the annals of hard-boiled noir is the subtext of Greek tragedy. Kelly refers several times to the Greek trilogy Oresteia, quoting from the original Greek. (Having had Greek many decades ago in high school I feel somewhat qualified to despair over Hoye's pronunciation, but it was a long time ago.) The plays have to do with revenge and three women bent on that revenge. But enough spoilers.

      Enjoyable, if formulaic, hard-boiled noir.