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Death in Eden: A Mystery

By: Paul J. Heald
Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
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He wanted to do research, but what he ended up with was a murder investigation - murder deep within the porn industry. Desperate to complete the last chapter of his law thesis on workplace dynamics for women to secure his tenure, Professor Stanley Hopkins stumbles on an old close college friend, Donald Johansson, who has plenty of female employees. The problem is that Donald is a porn video king. Taking his wife to California’s seedy city of Burbank to help with taping interviews (and to protect his reputation with the university, not to mention his marriage), Stanley realizes he is in way over his head the moment a leading porn star is brutally killed in Donald’s office during a party.Donald is arrested and pleads with Stanley to play legal detective. Stanley’s problems are compounded, as playing detective for a porn king puts him on thin ice with the university trustees, gets him in hot water with the police, dangles temptation in front of him, and puts his marriage at serious risk. As he solicits the help of eager porn stars and scrabbles for clues to help defend his old friend, Stanley feels the walls closing in on him more and more each minute. Death in Eden is a gripping page-turner and a darkly funny debut novel.

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This is s book straight out of the Boys Own School of Literature. The story rattles along well and has a good mystery at the heart of it, but there are outrageous behaviours that are taken as normal.... and I don't mean from the porn industry. The protagonist's wife commits an unforgivable act and this is not questioned. There is a distinct lack of 'innocent until proven guilty' from the authorities and very little appreciation of the fact that a man is fighting for a friend's life.
Also, look out for the author's way with adjective/noun combinations. The ingenious wordsmith has this down to a fine art.

Implausible but Entertaining

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This is a good murder mystery, liked the characters and it had a great narrator.

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