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.
Max Allan Collins
Max Allan Collins is a New York Times bestselling author of original mysteries, a Shamus award winner and an experienced author of movie adaptions and tie-in novels. His graphic novel Road to Perdition has been made into an Academy Award-winning major motion picture by Tom Hank’s production company. He is also the author of several tie-in novels based on the Emmy Award-winning TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 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.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Quick read, mindless fun.