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Greasing the Piñata

Tim Maleeny

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English
Poisoned Pen Press
30 June 2012
A former U.S. Senator vanishes days after his son goes missing. When they're both found dead on a golf course in Mexico, body parts missing, the Senator's estranged daughter Rachel resolves to discover what happened. Private investigator Cape Weathers doesn't really want the case. He can't stand politicians and doesn't know the terrain. But when it looks like the daughter may become the next victim, Cape crosses the border looking for answers.

Cape asks his deadly companion Sally, trained by the Hong Kong Triads, to watch his back as he stumbles onto a conspiracy that leads from corporate boardrooms in San Francisco to drug cartel strongholds in Mexico. Together they confront a killer determined to bury the past as well as anyone trying to dig it up. Miles away from home and nowhere near the answers, Cape manages to get kidnapped, steal from the mob, piss off the DEA, alienate the local police, confound a computer genius, and somehow lose the client he's been protecting all along.
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Imprint:   Poisoned Pen Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   Reprint
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 22mm
Weight:   451g
ISBN:   9781590588246
ISBN 10:   159058824X
Series:   Cape Weathers Mysteries
Pages:   352
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Tim Maleeny is a San Francisco-based writer whose short stories appear in DEATH DO US PART, an anthology from Mystery Writers of America edited by Harlan Coben, and also Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

Reviews for Greasing the Piñata

A cracking good mystery definitely not for the faint of heart but just right for readers who like a gritty crime novel with a labyrinth of plot twists. - Library Journal Tim Maleeny nails it with this new installment from Cape Weathers. It's an intriguing murder mystery crossed with a fast-paced political thriller. The whole thing is tied together with a witty protagonist and a finely tuned sense of humor. In Greasing the Pinata, just as in Mexico, anything can happen, and most of it does. - Bill Fitzhugh, award-winning author of Pest Control The Cape Weathers novels are smart, snappily written, energetic mysteries starring an engaging hero. - Booklist Maleeny smoothly mixes wry humor and a serious plot without sacrificing either in his third Cape Weathers mystery...an appealing hero, well-crafted villains, snappy dialogue and an energetic plot. - Publishers Weekly Maleeny is the kind of writer that makes you want to jump in the passenger seat and go for the ride-okay, maybe with eyes jammed shut and your hands gripping the arm rest-but then you want to go again. - Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author


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