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All Is Not Forgiven

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When murder is your business, solving the case is personal ...

The Homicide Hunter's riveting debut novel proves that fiction really can be stranger than truth ...

All Is Not Forgiven is the debut crime novel by television star Joe Kenda, a former homicide detective, whose hit series Homicide Hunter and Homicide Hunter: American Detective air on Investigation Discovery, the #1 true-crime channel available in more than 80 million homes.

In this first novel, the rookie Det. Kenda investigates a 1975 case that begins with the murder of a beloved Colorado philanthropist and society figure whose husband, a gambler and womanizer, appears to have an air-tight alibi.

Mentored by his veteran partner Det. Lee Wilson, a former Nashville singer turned skilled investigator, Kenda's case quickly attracts attention from the FBI, CIA, and Interpol, for its similarity to a string of killings involving wealthy married women. All the murders appear to have been committed by a hired professional whose trademark is the use of an unusual form of lethal ammunition that leaves no trace.

Detectives Kenda and Wilson travel across the country, following leads to Las Vegas and a mob "made man" pit boss who moonlights as a matchmaker for hit men. In this first extraordinary case, the detectives join a full law-enforcement blitz to track down a twisted killer who has made murder his business.

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    • Kirkus

      June 1, 2023
      "The story and its characters are made up, mostly," indicates Kenda in a headnote to this distantly fact-based crime yarn set in 1975. Both the acknowledgment and its casual tone are entirely apt. When Dallas heiress Kathryn Montgomery is shot dead with six soft wadcutter bullets in her plush Colorado Springs home, suspicion naturally falls on her husband. Fred Montgomery, who's enjoyed limited success as an expert witness on engineering matters, ducks the initial questions of Det. Lee Wilson and his rookie partner, Det. Joe Kenda, shows up for a second attempt with a high-priced lawyer and presents an alibi--he was in Las Vegas causing such a ruckus that the security detail at the Whitehorse Casino kept a constant eye on him--that's too good to be true. And Wilson and Kenda are quite correct: Montgomery hired pathologically sadistic freelance killer Bruno Kleiss, if that's his real name, to rid himself of his inconvenient wife and reopen the tap she'd shut off to her money. So where's the mystery? It partly concerns the figure of retired SAS Capt. Laurence Haywood, another hired killer, who's been pulled out of his second retirement and sent to Colorado on an unspecified errand, and partly concerns the question of just how many anecdotes, digressions, and flips back and forth between Kenda's first-person narrative and the third-person narrative that covers developments outside his ken the author will cram in. Readers inclined to skip over the padding will be left with a story that's neither substantial nor mysterious but one that Kenda keeps moving right along. Chatty, meandering, and intermittently gruesome. Now there's a combination you rarely see.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Gripping from the start, true-crime TV star Joe Kenda's debut novel is an entertaining and quick-paced fictionalized version of a case Kenda handled as a rookie detective in the 1970s. Narrated skillfully by Bradford Hastings, Tim Campbell, and Kenda himself, the audiobook benefits from their ability to produce a variety of voices for the fascinating cast of characters. At its core, the story focuses on a hit man who murders rich wives at the behest of their husbands, but it is the other characters whose personalities make the audiobook so satisfying, including veteran detective Lee Wilson, other police and FBI agents, and various mob underlings. D.J.S. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

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