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8 reviews
Barbara Seranella

Dark City Books, 2006

Compelling as ever
I fell in love with Munch Mancini in No Human Involved, and I love her still. Aside from the fact that Seranella writes with harrowing accuracy about drug addiction, her tinkerings with various engines--both human and mechanical--are never less than bang-on. This is a truly fine series.

No Human Involved

15 reviews
Barbara Seranella

Offbyone Pr, 2005

Strange but satisfying
I didn't enjoy the 70s, and if I'd picked up earler that this story was set in 1977 urban Southern California, I probably would have given it a pass. A fortunate mistake. Not that Seranella makes me feel nostalgic. If anything, she paints a bleaker picture than I remember. An asphalt lanscape, populated with self-satisfied, bigoted Angelenos, burned out junkies, cynical cops... And yet she forces ...

Unwilling Accomplice: A Munch Mancini Crime Novel (Munch Mancini Novels)

10 reviews
Barbara Seranella

Scribner, 2004

A girl with a past
Munch Mancini's past is closer than it appears in the rear-view mirror. More than any other series character I've read, Munch makes me believe. Believe in her, her daughter, her relationships with men, her relationship with her addictions, everything she does rings true. She does what she can to make something of her future while constantly looking over her shoulder to see what part of her ...

Greatest Hits: Tales of Assasins, Hit Men and Hired Guns
Jeff Abbott, Lee Child, ...

Request Audiobooks, 2006

Loaded with tension, charged with uncertainty, these four taut tales by New York Times bestselling authors bring their unsuspecting or hunted and fearful targets into the deadly sights of a hired killer?s gun. Contents include: "Retrospective" by Kevin Wignall read by Charles Kahlenberg, "Karma Hits Dogma" by Jeff Abbott read by Rex Linn, "The Greatest Trick of All" by Lee Child read by Stefan Rudnicki, "Upon My Soul" by Robert J. Randisi read ...

No Man Standing

8 reviews
Barbara Seranella

Robert Hale Ltd, 2004

One can't have too many friends
In NO MAN STANDING, ex-bad girl Munch Mancini is now eight years down the straight and narrow after giving up alcohol, drugs, sexual promiscuity, and bikers. An ace auto mechanic and owner of a struggling limo business, Munch is moving into a new house with her adopted daughter, Asia, when an old friend in need shows up. Ellen Summers was Mancini's best gal-pal in the rough old days, and is just ...

Deadman's Switch

9 reviews
Barbara Seranella

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007

Intriguing new series tragically cut too short
I enjoyed reading from the late Ms. Seranella's Munch Mancini titles. Charlotte Lyon, the main character her new projected mystery series, is likewise a resilient, flawed, but sympathetic lady. Charlotte, 33 and a widow, operates a crisis management consultant business in California. She's good at what she does, and commands top dollar doing it. In this case, Charlotte is hired by Sun Rail ...

No Offence Intended
Barbara Seranella

Robert Hale Ltd, 2001

Munch Mancini is a hardworking, no-nonsense car mechanic in Los Angeles. Having recently recovered from nearly every recognized addiction, she's doing her best to keep the sins of her past behind her. So, Munch is not pleased when an ex-lover shows up, looking for a favour.

Sans penser à mal
Barbara Seranella

Seuil, 2003

Unwanted Company (Munch Mancini Novels)

10 reviews
Barbara Seranella

Avon Books, 2001

Unwanted Company brings unwanted trouble!
Clean & sober for 6 years, Munch Mancini has her own limo service & is glumly looking at the post-graduation slump of summer. She hires out for a week to a cash-toting customer. When the women who escorted her customer & his friend the night before end up dead, Munch gets drawn back into sleuthing & reconnects with Det. St. John. When longtime friend Ellen, recently released from jail, turns ...

An Unacceptable Death: Library Edition (Munch Mancini Novels)

1 review
Barbara Seranella, Anna Fields

Blackstone Audiobooks, 2006

A POWERFUL MYSTERY SUPERBLY READ
Those who haven't had the pleasure of meeting Miranda "Munch" Mancini are in for a treat and a surprise. She's nothing like the conventional female crime fighters; in fact, she's not very much like a "conventional" gal at all. She's a recovered drug addict and prostitute who now makes her living as an auto mechanic and limo driver. And, in the hands of Barbara Seranella, a writer with a gift for ...

An Unacceptable Death (Munch Mancini Novels)

5 reviews
Barbara Seranella

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2005

Series remains excellent read
The time is 1986 - Ronald Reagan is President - Munch Mancini, the series heroine, continues to lead a clean life with her adopted daughter, and steady job as a mechanic. She happily is planning her wedding to Rico, her cop fiance, when she receives word that Rico was killed under questionable circumstances. Munch, seeking to clear Rico's name of any doubt that he was a clean officer, gets caught ...

Unfinished Business

7 reviews
Barbara Seranella

Robert Hale Ltd, 2004

Munch is back and better than ever
Munch Mancini is back and stronger than ever. She has a quiet, efficient, hard-earned calm about her these days. This fourth adventure left me breathless. Not from a quick, tremendous climax but from a buildup of action from the first pages of the book. Slowly the tension of figuring out a case that tied in to multiple cases and who did it and why fueled the pages of this expertly written ...

Unpaid Dues

5 reviews
Barbara Seranella

Robert Hale Ltd, 2005

Munchy urban noir thriller
After some heavy rains, a woman's body is found in the drainage sewer at the exclusive Riveria Country Club. The woman was badly beaten and her body tied to two cinder blocks so that she would sink without a trace. LAPD detective Mace St. John, back on the job after suffering a heart attack four months ago, leads the investigation. He learns the victim is Jane Ferran. When he looks at her file ...

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