Reason To Kill: An Amos Parisman Mystery

by Andy Weinberger

Overview

The highly anticipated second Amos Parisman mystery

“Amos Parisman is one of the most unique PIs in literary history.”
— Gumshoe Magazine

Somewhat-retired L.A. private eye Amos Parisman is hired by lonely booking agent Pinky Bleistiff to find one of his missing singers, Risa Barsky. But what starts as a simple investigation turns into a complex puzzle when Pinky is murdered and Risa is still nowhere to be found. With suspects dropping dead at every turn, Parisman must act quickly to discover the truth about Risa's relationship with Pinky before an innocent person gets sent to prison.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945551864
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/22/2020
Series:	Amos Parisman Mysteries , #2
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Andy Weinberger is the author of An Old Man's Game, and a longtime bookseller and founder/owner of Readers' Books in Sonoma, California. Born in New York, he grew up in the Los Angeles area and studied poetry and Chinese history at the University of New Mexico. He lives in Sonoma, where Readers' Books continues to thrive.

Editorial Reviews

The tight plot is enriched with Amos’s wry observations (“Free is what you are when you don’t want to retire yet but nobody’s beating a path to your doorbell. It’s a terrible thing to be free like that”). Descriptions of Amos’s tender yet increasingly fragile feelings for his dementia-stricken wife add poignancy. Hopefully, Amos still has a long career ahead of him.”
— Publishers Weekly

“Amos Parisman is one of the most unique PIs in literary history…a superb character study…Amos Parisman serves as a guide, leading readers from one crime scene to another while reflecting on mankind's moral decay. His reflections on life are witty and insightful (and sometimes depressing). He provided me with many reasons for wanting to read future installments in the Amos Parisman Mystery series.”
— Gumshoe Magazine

From the Publisher

07/27/2020

Jobs have been sparse lately for elderly L.A. PI Amos Parisman, the narrator of Weinberger’s appealing sequel to 2019’s An Old Man’s Game, until he receives a phone call from 75-year-old Pinky Bleistiff, the manager of a klezmer group called Dark Dreidel, whose members have been disappearing: first the drummer, then a violinist, and finally Risa Barsky, “the lady singer.” Amos soon discovers that the attractive 35-year-old Risa is much more to Pinky than just another songstress. Then, Pinky is murdered. His death is followed by that of Risa’s on-again, off-again boyfriend. Amos must discover the truth behind these crimes in a bid to keep an innocent person from going to prison. The tight plot is enriched with Amos’s wry observations (“Free is what you are when you don’t want to retire yet but nobody’s beating a path to your doorbell. It’s a terrible thing to be free like that”). Descriptions of Amos’s tender yet increasingly fragile feelings for his dementia-stricken wife add poignancy. Hopefully, Amos still has a long career ahead of him. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly