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Beautiful, Naked & Dead (2010)

by Josh Stallings(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0615449867 (ISBN13: 9780615449869)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Heist Publishing

series

Moses McGuire

review 1: Moses Mcguire is at the end of his rope. An ex-marine scarred by a peacekeeping tour of Lebanon and a convict scarred by a prison sentence, he wakes up each day with a gun in his hand, wondering if he can muster up the courage to end the pain once and for all. Moses works as a bouncer at a seedy Los Angeles strip club, mind-numbing work where he is only kept sane by talking to Kelly, the shy waitress who is too bashful to take off her clothes and dance for the lonely, haunted men who patronize the club. One morning Moses receives a strange phone call from Kelly cryptically mumbling about her sister and that things are not all as they seem. When Moses arrives at her apartment, he finds that she has been tortured and murdered. After a brief time as a suspect in the killing, ... moreMoses is cleared and sets out to find the elusive sister and answer the question of why this seemingly harmless girl was murdered. Moses has to navigate a witches brew of mafia, cops and feds, before he can rescue the sister and make the final showdown with the killers. This was a well done story, Moses McGuire is a very compelling character, and the action and suspense is rocket fueled throughout. There are a few implausible scenes, but hey, it's pulp fiction, right? Stallings wears his influences on his sleeve: Andrew Vachss, Charlie Huston, Joe R. Lansdale, but since these are some of my favorite storytellers it made the tale all the more enjoyable for me. Definitely recommended for fans of hard-boiled noir fiction that unflinchingly examines the seedier side of the American dream.
review 2: This was one of those books that I didn't know anything about and it ended up being a kick ass read. I couldn't hardly put it down. Moses Maguire discovers his stripper friend murdered in her home and sets out to find who did it and make them pay. Now,that sounds like a simple plot but there's much more to it. After reading this I will definently be following Josh Stallings career from here on out. As soon as I get paid I'm going to have to get the follow up Out There Bad. If I had to compare this to another book or series it would be Charlie Huston's Hank Thompson trilogy or Tom Piccirilli's The Cold Spot, The Coldest Mile. Highly Recommended. less

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