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Five Star First Edition Mystery - The Fight In The Dog: A Joe Hannibal Mystery

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If you like private eyes out of the mold of the hardboiled school--tough guys with their own codes of honor and hearts of gold--you'll like Joe Hannibal.

Hannibal doesn't go out of his way to look for a fight. But he isn't the kind to back down from one either. Threaten his reporter girlfriend, Jan Mosby, and Joe takes it personally. You know somebody is going to pay.

When someone stole the pet dog of her elderly neighbor Jan didn't expect it was going to put her on the trail of dognappings and a story her magazine editor thinks has potential. The parties responsible don't fancy Jan's snooping. They break into her home and tack the carcass of a dead dog to her bedroom door as a `mind-your-own business' threat.

That's when Joe steps in as Jan's bodyguard and fellow investigator. The probe brings them into contact with a bevy of unsavory characters, including a Satanic cult, violent bikers and brutal dog fighters. The encounters bring additional threats to them and people who attempt to help in the inquiry.

There's plenty of action, lots of twists and turns and colorful characters depicted in elegant prose. The repartee between Joe and Jan brings them vividly to life. I know I'm going to want to read more about this team. Fortunately, this isn't the first or the last in this series.

I am an advid Hannibal fan and this one is thoroughly exciting! There are twists and turns and thrills. Wayne Dundee is a very descriptive writer, his descriptions help you see in your minds eye what is going on in wonderful detail. I highly recommend his work to anyone who asks!

Joe Hannibal keeps getting better and better. The character has been around for nearly twenty years, and this new adventure has the blue-collar private detective up to his ears with canine kidnappers, psychics, and a dangerous biker gang. Although Joe Hannibal has been compared to Mike Hammer, take note that the oft-nominated (Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony awards) Wayne Dundee writes with a depth of character not found in most hard-boiled novels. Dundee manages a suprise on every page right up to the explosive climax. You won't want to miss this one.

She started her inquiries seeking information on her neighbor's lost dog, who vanished from a supermarket parking lot. However, her inane investigation obviously disturbed someone because a thug assaults her in her home warning reporter Jan Mosby to back off or else. Jan refuses to let the punks win so going along with her editor's one demand, the C-2-C magazine editor Cybill Deming hires a bodyguard for her reporter, who happens to be Jan's boyfriend Joe Hannibal.

Someone nails a badly mauled canine carcass to Jan's home as a final warning. Still Joe and Jan make inquiries into recent canine snatches and soon find a disturbing pattern. Numerous dogs have being taken throughout the Chicago metropolitan area as fodder for the training of pit bulls as killers. Could this be the work of the deadly head of Hellraisers, a dangerous biker gang? All Joe cares about is that his beloved Jan is safe and he is willing to die or kill to insure that remains so.

This private investigative journalist blend is a terrific tale that readers will appreciate due to the fine likable lead couple. The story line moves at fast clip as the dynamic duo makes the rounds and begins finding evidence of inhuman abuse towards animals especially dogs, but nothing that ties back to the culprit. Wayne D. Dundee provides an exciting tale in which his two Js prove it's the fight in the people that make for a fine thriller.

Harriet Klausner