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Death in the Fast Lane: A Det. King Leary Novel by [Chris Jay Becker]

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Death in the Fast Lane: A Det. King Leary Novel Kindle Edition

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When Rock legend Buzzy Motorola dies mysteriously, LAPD Detectives King Leary and Millionaire Adler to investigate . On the way, they meet crazed music biz types, the Mayflower Mafia, and a serial killer who calls himself The Angel of Righteousness. On top of all this, Leary has a secret... he sees dead people.

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May 17, 2014
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Chris Jay Becker is a fourth generation Angeleno, a former skip tracer, shipwright, and reporter. He comes by his humorous tales of crime naturally... he's the son of two Los Angeles heroin addicts/ex-cons, and he was raised, in part, by his grandfather who was a Vaudeville comedian. Chris is also a veteran Hollywood stand-up comic who has appeared at such venues as the Hollywood Improv and the Laugh Factory. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005EDD89I
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 17, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2226 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 192 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #2,106,193 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #7,298 in Hard-Boiled Mysteries (Kindle Store)
- #9,716 in Paranormal Suspense
- #11,254 in Serial Killer Thrillers

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Chris Jay Becker writes crime novels, westerns, science fiction, screenplays, and comic memoir. His Det. King Leary crime stories have been described as "Dragnet on 'Shrooms."

He's worked as a skip tracer, stand-up comic, music journalist, gravedigger, shipwright, script analyst, and a movie extra.

A fourth-generation Angeleno, Chris currently lives in Iowa where he is writing the next two King Leary novels, some scripts, and a few bad jokes.

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Raymond Embrack

Take the fast lane

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 3, 2011

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King Leary and the Millionaire investigate Buzzy Mottola's murder and the deaths that follow in a tour of L.A. from K-Town to Knotts Berry Farm, from punk rock to rap. This reads like a hip CSI, the cops know their way around a wisecrack and the smart dialogue keeps you reading. Both L.A. and the plot become spookier with just a shade of DaVinci Code while King Leary finds his way toward romance and a way to exorcise the demons of his past. With appearances by Tom Mix and his wonder horse, an eclectic playlist, and a punk band named Silent But Debbie this is not the typical police procedural.

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Brooke Frederick

Murder Mystery for Music Aficionados

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 12, 2011

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If you're looking for a Los Angeles mystery centering on the music industry, with real people, real bands and real police procedure, look no further than Death in the Fast Lane. This book is a fast, fun read. The narrator, Detective Leary, possesses a sharp wit. Working in the homicide division that deals with crimes involving celebrities, he also knows his music, and I mean knows it. He can tell you who filled in when the drummer died in some obscure California band back in the early 1990s. But he also surprises with knowledge and wit on literary figures as wide ranging as Milton, Dylan Thomas and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

I loved the fast pace of Death in the Fast Lane. The dialogue was entertaining. The characters, starting with Leary but not limited to him, are three-dimensional. The author brings in their ghosts and demons in appropriate measure, not weighing down the story but giving it depth.

I've put Chris Jay Becker on my list of authors to follow, because this book was really well-written and good fun.

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Ronald C. Tobin

Crime Noir in Modern Los Angeles

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 3, 2012

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They say that you can always leave California, but California never leaves you if you grew up there. I know that is true for me, and it is definitely true of Chris Becker. His insights into modern Los Angeles are very poignant and most appropriate. King Leary is a solid character, very believable. It helps to know about the music scene while reading this book, because it adds so much to the experience. Wisecracking, great crime drama. Going Noir in the modern era is fantastic by my standards. A great storytelling touch is that Christopher really makes King Leary come alive by bringing the man's background into the tale. Very gritty, very intense. The plot has remarkable twists. I was kept guessing about "whodunit" until the very end of the book. If this is your genre, do pick up a copy. I look forward to Christopher's future books!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 4, 2013

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This book has a great premise, but the multitude of errors and mistakes get in the way. Also, the fact that Leary sees dead people is barely explored and really has no bearing on the plot or events which is a shame. I also found much of the conversations tedious and unnecessary. This book could be great with a lot of fixing up. I wonder if the author read it himself. If not, he needs to.

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Gypsy

Short wish a lot of non essential things thrown in

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 19, 2013

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I know that joking, sarcasms and plain nonsense is how you would chat with a friend ... unfortunately it is not good when you want to read about a mysterious death...

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 26, 2013

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Sounded like it should be good but I couldn't make it past Chapter 2. BORING and not worth the $0.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 18, 2016

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Very clever character development!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 23, 2013

It was an okay book, just not my type. Some books I just don't warm up to. Might try another.

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