Death Is a Lonely Business (Audiobook)

from pretzelogic

Entertaining novel in the murder-mystery genre - the application of Bradbury's sometimes near-poetic style to the more hard-boiled subject matter was interesting, as was the unusual (for Bradbury) device of telling the story in the first-person, setting it in LA in the late 1940s. The protagonist...

from Meredy

I didn't plan it this way, but for me the turning of the year was bookended by two Ray Bradbury titles. I started Death Is a Lonely Business (1985) near the end of December because it was available on my Kindle and I was stuck lying down, nursing a sore back. It ended up being my final book of 20...

from sleahey

Bradbury's exceptional writing and creative outlook make this a unique murder mystery. The eerie and sinister atmosphere of coastal California lend a sense of doom as the protagonist's acquaintances turn up dead, one by one. The friendship that develops between the writer and the detective is cha...

from jastbrown

The first book of Bradbury's Venice Trilogy, is very enjoyable if your taste runs to light, strange, quirky, mysteries. It was followed over a period of several years by "A Graveyard For Lunatics" and "Let's All Kill Constance". These are contemporary oddball crime fiction, not Sci-Fi.. and as wi...

from kristelako

More than just a mystery novel, this book is an exploration of melancholy, decay, and the hopeful stubborness of the creative spirit. I truly love the protagonist, the unnamed young writer who mourns old strangers when nobody does, who befriends a grumpy detective by giving him his novel's title....