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Stuart M. Kaminsky, MWA Grandmaster, is author of more than 50 published novels, 5 biographies, 4 textbooks and 35 short stories.
He also has screenwriting credits on four produced films including Once Upon a Time in America, Enemy Territory, A Woman in the Wind and Hidden Fears.
He has been nominated for six prestigious Edgar Allen Poe Awards including one for his short story “Snow” in 1999. He won an Edgar for his novel A Cold Red Sunrise, which was also awarded the Prix De Roman D’Aventure of France. He has been nominated for both a Shamus Award and a McCavity Readers Choice Award.
Kaminsky writes several popular series including those featuring Lew Fonesca, Abraham Lieberman, Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, and Toby Peters. He has also written two original Rockford Files novels.
His nonfiction books include Basic Filmmaking, Writing for Television, American Film Genres, and biographies of Gary Cooper, Clint Eatwood, John Huston and Don Siegel.
Kaminsky holds a B.S. in Journalism and an M.A. in English from The University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in Speech from Northwestern University where he taught for 16 years before becoming a Professor at Florida State. where he headed the Graduate Conservatory in Film and Television Production. He left Florida State in 1994 to pursue full-time writing. He lives in Sarasota, Florida. Stuart died in 2009.
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Tenth in the Abe Lieberman series:
The Dead Don't Lie |
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Abe Lieberman tries to find the link among the brutal deaths of three prominent members of the Turkish community. His partner Bill Hanrahan is assigned to a case where a hospitalized chef claims to have been beaten by two people and shot by a third.
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Fifth in the Lew Fonesca series:
Always Say Goodbye |
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After four years of wallowing in his clinical depression in Sarasota, Lew Fonesca returns to Chicago to find his wife's murderer so that he can get on with his life. |
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| Behind the Mystery |
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Top mystery writers are interviewed by Stuart Kaminsky and photographed by Laurie Roberts. Interviews include Mickey Spillane, Tony Hillerman, Joseph Wambaugh, Martin Cruz Smith, Elmore Leonard, Robert Parker, Evan Hunter, John Jakes, Lawrence Block, Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke, Donald Westlake, Lisa Scottoline, Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton, Ann Rule and Faye and Jonathan Kellerman. |
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Ninth in the Abe Lieberman series:
Terror Town |
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Abe Lieberman and his partner, Bill Hanrahan, face a Gordian knot involving Carl Zwick, aging Chicago Cubs baseball player, Anita Mills, victim of a random act of brutality, and Richard Allen Smith, believer that God has sent him to make sure that converts see the light. |
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Fourth in the Lew Fonesca series:
Denial |
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Eighth in the Abe Lieberman series:
The Last Dark Place |
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Abe Lieberman, veteran detective, uses his head and heart more than his gun. Lieberman and his Irish partner, Bill Hanrahan, known as the Rabbi and the Priest, deal with both professional and personal issues in The Last Dark Place.
Lieberman, in Arizona to pick up a mob enforcer in an extradition case, runs into trouble when the enforcer is killed at the airport and Lieberman has to explain this to his superiors. Personally, he is trying to arrange his grandson's bar mitzvah without incurring bankruptcy.
Meanwhile, Hanrahan, paired with a temporary partner who is racist and sexist, is dealing with a rape case involving the young wife of a police officer.
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Twenty-fourth in the Toby Peters series:
Now You See It |
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Illusion gets more deadly than reality on Toby Peters's twenty-fourth outing from Edgar-winning author Stuart M. Kaminsky.
A string of star-studded successes-most recently with Cary Grant in To Catch a Spy and an edgy Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierced-has won Tinseltown detective Toby Peters a bit of local celebrity, and that's something his new client, Harry Blackstone, understands.
At the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles, Blackstone is billed as the World's Greatest Living Magician. Of course, should the giant buzz saw in the climax to Blackstone's act cut the beautiful young woman in fact in half, his sterling reputation would be ruined. And someone among the Los Angeles Friends of Magic is decidedly intent upon ruining it-whatever the price, including the life of Toby's prime suspect. Unfortunately, with the corpse count mounting, the evidence is pointing increasingly to Toby's client as the man behind the murders.
As always, adding to the wackiness of Toby's investigation are the ungentle dentist Sheldon Minck, wrestler-poet Jeremy Butler, the suave, small-statured Swiss multilingualist Gunter Wherthman, and daffy Mrs. Plaut.
But to solve the case, Toby finds he needs someone else-the dashing star of the movie A Thousand and One Nights, Cornel Wilde.
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| Show Business is Murder |
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The Mystery Writers of America present 20 all-new stories from the marquee names of mystery including Elaine Viets, John Lutz, Libby Fischer Hellman and Carolyn Wheat.
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Third in the Lew Fonesca series:
Midnight Pass |
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Lew Fonesca is a guy just trying to get along. When his wife died in a senseless auto wreck, he got up and left his old life - and when his car gave out in Sarasota, Florida, he stayed. He takes small process-serving gigs and various odd jobs helping people out, and he tries to fix the gaping hole in his heart.
But for a man who just wants to ease through life without any complications, Lew has a pretty full plate. The shrink that Lew's been seeing for more than a year wants him to finally dump all the grief that he's carrying around so he can have more than a half-life. And Sally, the pretty single mom and social worker who has helped Lew in the past, wants to deepen their friendship. On top of that, a local minister asks him to find a town council member who has gone missing just before a crucial vote that could ruin a struggling community, and a distraught father comes to Lew to track down hiw wife and two kids, who Lew suspects ran off with the man's best friend.
When people start showing up dead, Lew knows he's in way over his head - and this time he may not be able to make it all come out okay.
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Second in the Lew Fonesca series:
Retribution |
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Lew Fonesca is a world-weary guy who got in a car and just started driving after his wife died. He wound up in front of a Dairy Queen in Sarasota, Florida and now makes hiw way amid bail jumpers and lost wives, people who want to be found and those who will do anything to stay under their rock. He spends his days solving cases both big and small, trying to get by while attempting to figure out how to make the rest of his life make sense.
Lew has solved his share of cases and most of them - to his pride - have wound up having a happy ending; in Vengeance he saved a young runaway who has had a childhood nobody should ever have. She finally seems to be turning her life around, but when she becomes involved with a reclusive bestselling author and several valuable manuscripts disappear, Lew knows that young Adele is in way over her head.
If Lew doesn't act fast, not only could a few reputations get tarnished - but the bodies might start piling up.
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| Midnight Pass |
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Lew Fonesca is a man who has been trying to hide from the world since his wife was killed in a car crash three years ago. At that time, he drove for
three days from Cook County to Sarasota, Florida, where his car gave out.
Fortunately for the reader, Fonesca is not totally successful in his attempt to withdraw from civilization. As his psychologist puts it, "For a man who is trying to hide from the world, you seem to have been drawn very deeply into it."
In this third in the series, Lew is challenged by his psychologist to free himself of the grief he's been living with, so that he can have a full life. Sally, the social worker who has helped him in the past, wants to deepen their relationship. A local minister asks Lew to find a missing town council member so that he can cast a crucial vote, and a grieving father
wants Lew to track down his wife and two kids.
All this is quite a handful for a man trying to get through life without any complications. Then, people begin dying, and Lew Fonesca is drawn deeper into a situation he may not be able to fix.
I find Lew Fonesca to be a most likeable, sympathetic character. His situation and the characters he meets are vivid and believable. Stuart M. Kaminsky has an admirable ability to create characters, set the scene, and build suspense. His dialogue is quite convincing as well.
Midnight Pass should appeal to any reader looking for a suspenseful mystery with a protagonist who possesses sensitivity and wit, and an ability to grow
in believable ways throughout the story. I am definitely ready to read the first two in this series, and look forward to more! |
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| Posted 03-01-2004 |
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