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Service Dress Blues
- Author
- Michael Bowen
- Narrator
- Malcolm Hillgartner
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 4 September 2009
- Run Time
- 7 hours 2 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
This contemporary puzzle mystery features Rep and Melissa Pennyworth, a bantering, plucky couple. Rep, a trademark and copyright lawyer, has followed Melissa to Milwaukee in her quest for a university assistant professorship.
Then, on the night before the Army-Navy game, a midshipman is found stark naked and barely alive in a cheap motel near the Naval Academy in Annapolis. The victim’s closest relatives are Ole and Lena Lindstrom, a pair of aging but scrappy Wisconsin political activists who had asked Rep for copyright advice. Ole and Lena have a well-earned reputation for trading punches with each other, and when Ole is murdered, Lena becomes an instant suspect. But Rep and Melissa suspect there is more involved, including a connection between the midshipman’s mugging and Ole’s murder.
Critics Review
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“The light tone and easygoing dialogue make for a quick read.”
Publishers Weekly
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“Inventive…clever.”
Kirkus Reviews
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“Politics turn deadly in this fifth entry in the Rep and Melissa Pennyworth series.”
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Details
- Author
- Michael Bowen
- Narrator
- Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duration
- 7 hours 2 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 September 2009
- ISBN
- 9781481568876
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, War, combat and military adventure fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural
Synopsis
This contemporary puzzle mystery features Rep and Melissa Pennyworth, a bantering, plucky couple. Rep, a trademark and copyright lawyer, has followed Melissa to Milwaukee in her quest for a university assistant professorship.Then, on the night before the Army-Navy game, a midshipman is found stark naked and barely alive in a cheap motel near the Naval Academy in Annapolis. The victim’s closest relatives are Ole and Lena Lindstrom, a pair of aging but scrappy Wisconsin political activists who had asked Rep for copyright advice. Ole and Lena have a well-earned reputation for trading punches with each other, and when Ole is murdered, Lena becomes an instant suspect. But Rep and Melissa suspect there is more involved, including a connection between the midshipman’s mugging and Ole’s murder.
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