Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/holiday/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0007 407360 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/holiday/engine/rss.php:0 Rob Leininger - Free Library Land Online - Holiday https://holiday.library.land/ ru Rob Leininger - Free Library Land Online - Holiday DataLife Engine Gumshoe Rock https://holiday.library.land/rob-leininger/504529-gumshoe_rock.html https://holiday.library.land/rob-leininger/504529-gumshoe_rock.html Gumshoe Rock
USA Today best-selling author"Mortimer Angel is my favorite private eye."—John Lescroart, New York Times best-selling author Early in July, northern Nevada's senior Internal Revenue Service agent, Ronald Soranden—disliked by every agent in the Reno IRS office—vanished without a trace. In September, he makes a dramatic reappearance, of sorts. His skull—stripped clean and white—is dropped through the slashed top of a Mustang convertible. The vehicle belongs to Lucy Landry, PI Mortimer Angel's gorgeous young assistant now working with him on a seemingly unrelated embezzlement case. But Mort is a former IRS field agent in Reno. He'd done his time during the tyrannical reign of Soranden, quitting, he says, "when I discovered I have a soul." Now that his former boss's head has appeared, he and Lucy find them themselves under the annoying surveillance of a pair of IRS enforcement agents. When the FBI are brought...]]> Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:13:44 +0200 Gumshoe on the Loose https://holiday.library.land/rob-leininger/225120-gumshoe_on_the_loose.html https://holiday.library.land/rob-leininger/225120-gumshoe_on_the_loose.html Gumshoe on the Loose
"Rob Leininger captures the voice and heart of the classic PI mystery and manages to make it completely original at the same time—Mortimer Angel is my new favorite Private Eye."—John Lescroart, New York Times best-selling author IRS agent-turned-PI Mortimer Angel is relaxing in a hole-in-the-wall bar in a Reno casino when an attractive young girl hires him to find out who left her a cryptic message demanding a million dollars. At the girl's house, Mort finds the body of missing rapper Jonnie Xenon—Jo-X to his legions of fans—hanging from the rafters with two bullet holes in him. Mort is shocked when he learns the identity of the girl's father—and even more shocked when the father hires him to investigate the murder. Mort, being Mort, accumulates a few felonies as he follows the clues to Las Vegas. And along the way, he picks up an alluring young assistant who changes his life—in every conceivable way.]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2018 00:45:12 +0200 Gumshoe for Two https://holiday.library.land/rob-leininger/225119-gumshoe_for_two.html https://holiday.library.land/rob-leininger/225119-gumshoe_for_two.html Gumshoe for Two
"Smart, sexy, and un-put-downable." —John Lescroart In the style of Dashiell Hammett, ex-IRS agent turned gumshoe-in-training, Mortimer Angel, is approached by a beautiful hooker, Holiday, in a casino bar in Reno. Mort first met Holiday two months ago, but now learns that she's not really a hooker. She's a college engineering student, searching for her younger sister, Allie, who disappeared three months ago. Having seen Mort in the news, Holiday knows he's a PI who finds missing persons. While in the bar with Mort, Holiday gets an unexpected phone call from Allie, who says she's in Gerlach, a small town in Nevada. The call is cut off. Holiday hires Mort on the spot, dragging him off to Gerlach. When Mort finds a connection between Allie and US Senator Harry "Liar" Reinhart, a presidential candidate who vanished without a trace three days ago, things quickly turn deadly ... very deadly.]]> Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:45:12 +0200 Gumshoe https://holiday.library.land/rob-leininger/225118-gumshoe.html https://holiday.library.land/rob-leininger/225118-gumshoe.html Gumshoe
For nine long days, the mayor and district attorney of Reno, Nevada, have been missing. Vanished without a trace. Their vehicles were found parked side-by-side at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Did they fly somewhere together? They aren't on any flight manifest. Did the two of them take off with a big pile of the city's money? If so, the city accountants can't find it. Were they murdered? There's no sign of foul play. Their disappearances have finally made national news. Enter Mortimer Angel, who'd just quit a thankless job as an IRS agent. Mort is Reno's newest gumshoe, a private-eye-in-training at his nephew's detective agency. Just four hours into his new career, Mort finds the mayor—make that, the mayor's head—in the trunk of Mort's ex-wife's Mercedes. The news-hungry media speculates: Did Mort kill the mayor? Did Mort's ex? As events begin to spin out of control, Mort realizes things have been out of control since the night before he started his new career,...]]> Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:45:12 +0200