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Extenuating Circumstances (Hardcover)

by Jonathan Valin (Author)
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Fully realized characters, complex plots and excellent writing are the qualities that attract readers to Valin's series about Harry Stoner, private eye. In his eighth appearance, Stoner describes his assignment to find missing Ira Lessing, a businessman from Cincinnati, Ohio, beloved for his generous help to troubled teens. The detective is with Lessing's childlike wife Janey, and his partner, Len Trumaine, when they learn that Lessing's body has been discovered, brutally beaten. A punk teenager, Terry Carnova, not only confesses but boasts of killing Lessing, but Stoner isn't convinced. Terry's pathetic lover Kitty insists the murderer is "Tommy T," a male hustler who caters to masochists. With this information, the detective gropes his way through the fog that shrouds the facts about the victim and several suspects in the case. The story stands as a "mainstream" novel as well as a fine mystery. Mystery Book Club alternate.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as other Stoner novels, Mar 21 2001
By Brian D. Rubendall (Oakton, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: EXTEN/CIRCUM (Hardcover)
The Harry Stoner private detective series is one of the better ones around. Stoner is a hardboiled P.I. from Cincinnati who gets involved in some sometime brutally violent stories. "Extenuating Circumstances" is no exception, but it stretches plausibility a bit too much. Also Harry's comes off as a rather colorless character in this one.

Stoner's never bad, but he's usually better than this.

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