A Poke Rafferty Novel: The Fear Artist (Series #5) (Paperback)

from Leighton

You can read Tim Hallinan's latest novel, "The Fear Artist", as a standalone. Can. But why are earth would you want to? The other books in the Poke Rafferty series are such a delight that you'd have to be whacky not to read them. And, if you haven't done so as yet, I daresay it's only because you...

from cathyskye

First Line: Two two-gallon cans of paint weigh about five times as much as he'd thought they would. Rose and Miaow are out of town visiting relatives, and all Poke Rafferty has planned is getting the apartment painted while they're gone. But, like all best laid plans, everything goes downhill fas...

from Suzannie1

loved this book , really different and believable , will go & read the others in the series now , never heard of this author before though.

from lostinalibrary

The only plans Poke Rafferty has is to paint the apartment while his wife and daughter are out of town. But, as so often happens, things don't go as planned. A man is shot outside the paint store and, as he falls, he grabs onto Poke. Before he dies, he whispers a name to Rafferty and slips a laun...

from danhammang

I like Poke Rafferty a lot but what keeps me coming back is Hallinan's talent for telling a story much larger than the whodunit. In his Acknowledgement section he said that it was a hard book to write. I believe it because it was a tough one to read. It's a good page turning read but the larger s...