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Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk
Audiobook7 hours

Jack and the Beanstalk

Written by Ed McBain

Narrated by Luke Daniels

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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Jack McKinney is a bright-eyed twenty-year-old in the business of buying a snapbean farm with forty grand in cash, and attorney Matthew Hope assists with the deal—until Jack’s found dead in his condo, stabbed fourteen times.

The backwoods seller wants his forty grand pronto, but nobody can find the cash. And when Matthew pays a visit to the McKinney ranch, he gets more than he bargained for. Jack’s mother, Veronica, is a woman who looks half her years, with cool gray eyes to match her ambivalent attitude toward her son’s death. The only thing more dangerous than Veronica is daughter Sunny, the mirror image of her mother and a girl who can hold her liquor. Everyone seems to have a theory about the missing money, but Matthew’s the only one who can get to the bottom of the bum deal.

The fourth installment of Ed McBain’s Matthew Hope Mysteries, Jack and the Beanstalk delivers our lawyer into a world of seedy folks, sour deals, and a family gone afoul.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 6, 2012
ISBN9781469243344
Jack and the Beanstalk
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Ed McBain

Ed McBain was one of the pen names of successful and prolific crime fiction author Evan Hunter (1926 – 2005). Debuting in 1956, the popular 87th Precinct is one of the longest running crime series ever published, featuring over fifty novels, and is hailed as “one of the great literary accomplishments of the last half-century.” McBain was awarded the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in 1986 by the Mystery Writers of America and was the first American to receive the Cartier Diamond Dagger award from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain.

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    “... and I didn’t know whether she’d meant she was sorry I’d been beaten up or sorry she was ending it this way.”Matthew Hope gets his ass kicked in a bar, defending/protecting his girlfriend, and after the hospital, she breaks up with him. Tough start to this book!Then, the book slows waaaaay down, and I learn more about raising cattle than I ever wanted to. Waaaay more. Then it picks up again, and then it's over. The dialogue is good, especially the banter, but the main character, Hope, is pretty lame, and I didn't much care for anyone else, except maybe the cops. It was my first "Hope" book, and probably my last. I'll stick to the 87th Precinct, thanks.