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Pretty Boy Dead

Kendall Parker Mystery

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Pretty Boy Dead

By: Jon Michaelsen
Narrated by: F.C. McAllister
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A murdered male stripper. A missing go-go dancer. A city councilman on the hook. Can Atlanta homicide detective Sergeant Kendall Parker solve the vicious crime while remaining safely hidden behind the closet door?

When the body of a young man is found in a popular midtown park, police and local media are quick to pin the brutal killing on a homeless gay kid with AIDS. But homicide detective Sgt. Kendall Parker isn't so convinced, even when the suspect is accused of assaulting another police detective with a deadly weapon.

City leaders want the murder solved yesterday and jump at the chance to pin the crime on the drug-craving teen. It's an election year, so remaining in office is their top priority, even at the sacrifice of the young man. Sgt. Parker isn't so persuaded and is determined to prove Hopper's innocence, despite the protest of his colleagues and its threat to the deep secret Parker has carefully hidden from his comrades for years.

©2013 Jon Michaelsen (P)2018 Lethe Press Crime Literature & Fiction Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Police Procedural Fiction Detective

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A well written story with and interesting  concept.  The characters are likeable and the narration is very good.

Interesting Story

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I really enjoyed this book, the narration was good and the story gripped me from the start, as another reviewer has said you know most of the story after only a few chapters but I found the rest of the story kept my attention to the very end.
Highly recommended.

Great Listen!

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This is the first story I’ve listened to/read by this author. I really enjoyed it but have to say it did require me to keep my attention on the story. Sometimes I can get the beginning of a book and then do other things while listening. This story has so much to it I found myself needing to pay full attention to be sure I didn’t miss something. There are so many side issues to the solution of why the young man was killed. On the road to this solution, I found out so much about the characters. First there is Kendall Parker. He is a homicide detective on the edge. He has so much guilt and sorrow going on that he is not able to operate as normal. His partner for five years Perelli, has plenty of his own issues. Then there is the reporter who has a past with Parker. And not to be overlooked is Parker’s partner who died, Michael. This death has a lot to do with Parker’s guilt. The story side of the dead guy leads to many more characters and events. I really enjoyed the story. It is not really a romance but the characters are so interesting that they brought out certain issues that are somewhat romancy. I would recommend this book. It kept my interest the whole way. The narrator, F.C. McAllister worked well for me. I feel he gave the life to these characters and kept me wanting to listen to what was next. I will look for more by this author. I received a copy from Audiobooks Unleashed and thank them for the chance to find this author.

Held my attention the whole way through

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I have a had time finishing this book. Although I like it, I have some issues with the way the mystery was presented to us. There is a lot of POVs in this story, from the bad guys, the journalist, the detective, the victim and some others.

The first 4 chapters show us the victim, the killer, the journalist and some witnesses. In these 4 chapters, you know who is dead, how he was killed, who killed and half the motive. In the fifth chapter, you get to know the detective Kendall.

You see, the reader knows basically the whole mystery in the first few chapters. So the rest of the book we get to follow Kendall and his partner trying to solve the case. I'm conflicted about this plot device. Although I think it was clever, 'cause this way we could focus on the police procedures and see their struggle trying to find the killer. In the other hand, we know the mystery and we're just waiting for the detectives catch up to us, so it got a little boring at times.

I know the narrator by his other pen name, the one he uses for romances, so I was familiar with his voice. He did an awesome job, I love his voice and his accent. But what I most like about him is his way of show the emotions and create different voices for different characters. His pace is a little on the slow side, but I always speed up and it's perfect. He does the pauses in the right places and doesn't rush the narration, which I appreciate.

This audiobook was given to me and no review was expected of me.

The mystery was solved in the first 4 chapters

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The audio must be a reading from an earlier edition. There are changes to every page that don't match, whole passages on most pages are changed. Therefore, while the reading is good, and the story is good, the combined experience is so 'not good'.

The audio doesn't match the book

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