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Alice in Jeopardy
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Alice in Jeopardy
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Alice in Jeopardy
Audiobook8 hours

Alice in Jeopardy

Written by Ed McBain

Narrated by Bernadette Dunne

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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Since her husband Eddie's death in a boating accident eight months ago, Alice Glendenning has struggled to make ends meet while waiting for the insurance company to pay up. When Alice takes a job as a real estate agent, she makes a new friend, Charlie Hobbs from whom she is supposed to try to buy his waterfront land for a developer. Things quickly become a nightmare for Alice when her two children, Ashley and Jamie, aren't on the school bus home one day, and she gets a phone call from a woman claiming to have them. When the kidnapper calls again and asks for a ransom identical to the amount Alice is due from the insurance agency after Eddie's accident, Alice forgoes contacting the police and instead calls Charlie for help. But soon enough Alice wonders whether anyone can be trusted in her fight for everything she holds dear.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 22, 2005
ISBN9781415908327
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Alice in Jeopardy
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Ed McBain

Ed McBain was one of the pen names of successful and prolific crime fiction author Evan Hunter (1926 – 2005). Debuting in 1956, the popular 87th Precinct is one of the longest running crime series ever published, featuring over fifty novels, and is hailed as “one of the great literary accomplishments of the last half-century.” McBain was awarded the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in 1986 by the Mystery Writers of America and was the first American to receive the Cartier Diamond Dagger award from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    "There's nothing like early retirement to make a man feel dead." I can attest to this quote from Ed McBain's excellent tale of a woman whose children are kidnapped. She is struggling to make a living as a real estate agent in Florida following the accidental death of her husband when he fell from a boat. In the meantime, her son was so traumatized by his father's death, he has become mute and Alice, on the cusp of making her first house sale with the prospect of a badly needed commission, is hit by a car and has her ankle broken. Could things possibly get worse? Well, they do as the kids are kidnapped and the cops in the small town seem reminiscent of the Keystone Kops not to mention jurisdictional fighting with the feds.

    There are some marvelous set pieces. As they sit in the living room and Alice becomes more frustrated with the cops, a blond woman in a red mustang pulls into the driveway. It's Jennifer Redding, the woman who hit Alice the day before. She thanks Alice for not calling the police, they discuss whether it's better for Jennifer or Alice to report the accident, the kind of small talk at which McBain excels. Then Jennifer offers Alice a box of chocolate, "everybody likes chocolate, right?" and then in a marvelous scene hints that wouldn't it be nice if Alice offered her some pieces of candy from the box she was just given. Brings a smile to your face.

    Not at all your usual McBain and the 87th Precinct.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Eight months ago, Alice Glendenning lost her husband in a boating accident in the Gulf of Mexico. Alice and her two children are grieving and not doing well financially. Alice isn't sure how she is going to pay the bills as she is trying to jump-start a career in real estate. Then things get much worse one afternoon when the kids don't come home from school. After a promising start, things deteriorate, and the book ends up being just mediocre.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    An easy comfort read. Not up to the usual standard of McBain's work.