The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles - Ken Kuhlken (funny books to read txt) 📗

answer for some minutes, until they arrived at Ocean Park beach. Then he peered out to sea through the mist and saw only one small dory. The dozen or so folks on that stretch of beach all appeared to be fishing or picnicking. None were looking for Milly.

She was alive, Tom believed. She was roaming the world like a hungry lion on the lookout for someone to devour.

But he said, “No, babe, she won’t come back like Sister did. She’s gone.”

“Right,” Florence said. “A whole lot of people wanted Sister Aimee back. Nobody wants our mama.”

 

The End of The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles,
but hardly the end of the story.

Next up, The Good Know Nothing, in which a popular novel delivers Tom a clue about the mystery of Charlie Hickey, why he left his kids in the grip of their demon mother, and what has become of him. Follow Tom and Florence as they risk everything challenging the LAPD, a Capone gunman, train robbers, and a tycoon whose ambition calls for his media empire to run the world.

 

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The Hickey Family Crime Novels

 

THE BIGGEST LIAR IN LOS ANGELES:  (L.A. 1926)  Unless a famous evangelist will take agnostic Tom Hickey into her confidence, he may never learn if the Ku Klux Klan lynched his friend.   San Diego Book Awards Best Mystery.

THE GOOD KNOW NOTHING:  (L.A., Tucson, and McCloud, CA. 1936) Author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, an outlaw who may be the Sundance Kid, and publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst stand between Tom and the truth about the disappearance of his father.   Los Angeles Book Festival Best Mystery Award.

THE VENUS DEAL:  (San Diego, Mount Shasta, Denver, Tijuana, 1942)   A gifted jazz singer leaves her job at a San Diego nightclub to avenge the sexual crimes of a spiritualist guru.

THE LOUD ADIOS:  (San Diego, Tijuana, 1943)   Tom s discovers Nazis plotting to make Baja California a German colony.   St. Martins Press, PWA Best First P.I. Novel

 

THE ANGEL GANG:  (Lake Tahoe, San Diego, L.A., 1950)  An L.A. mob’s beef against Tom results in the kidnap of pregnant Wendy Hickey. Tom alone can’t rescue her, but if he can enlist the help of the Las Vegas mob as well as angels, in whom Wendy steadfastly believes, maybe …

 

THE DO-RE-MI:  (Rural Northern California, 1971)  The Hickey’s adopted son Alvaro, a musician booked at a folk festival, flees from a murder accusation. His brother Clifford’s best chance of proving him innocent requires the help of hippies and Jesus freaks.   Shamus Best Novel finalist.

 

THE VAGABOND VIRGINS:  (San Diego, Rural Baja California, 1979)  A heavenly apparition appears in Baja California rallying the faithful to overthrow the corrupt Mexican government. Alvaro Hickey joins her crusade.

 

MIDHEAVEN: (Lake Tahoe, 1974): Jodi McGee, whom you will meet again in The Very Least and yet again in the Answer to Everything, tells the haunting story of her treacherous eighteenth year and the battle between her devotion to God and her love for a teacher. An Ernest Hemingway Award Best First Novel finalist.

 

THE VERY LEAST: (San Diego, Tijuana, Lake Tahoe, 1985):  A dear friend of Clifford Hickey's cousin Bo crosses the border on the run from a charge of molesting children in a church nursery school. After journalist Clifford offers to help Bo clear her friend, he infuriates gangsters, politicians, and tycoons on both sides of the border. And what's more, he meets and falls for Jodi McGee.

 

THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING: (San Diego, Tijuana, Lake Tahoe, 1990): Attorney Alvaro Hickey plays a role in the murder of a Tijuana cartel sicaro then becomes the alleged murderer’s lawyer. The cartel, which has lately massacred an entire family, now targets another whole family, the Hickey-McGees.

 

About Ken Kuhlken



 

Some of his favorites are early mornings, the desert in spring, kind and honest people, baseball, golf, martial arts, and other sports played by those who don’t take themselves too seriously, most kids, and films he and his Zoë can enjoy together. He reads classic novels, philosophy, theology, and excellent mysteries and thrillers. He often recommends Ross Macdonald, Patricia Highsmith, John Lescroart, Graham Greene, Ruth Rendell, and John LeCarre

. He is also a fan of Kurt Vonnegut and John Irving. Please follow him on BookBub to see his recommendations and reviews.

 

Ken has long been the author of novels, stories, poems, magazine features, and essays. Lots of honors have come his way, including acclimation from the National Endowment for the Arts; Poets, Essayists and Novelists; Private Eye Writers of America; and San Diego and Los Angeles Book Awards.

 

Though he advocates beer on you tube, he actually prefers red wine and all sorts Dewar's Scotch.




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