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All Is Not Forgiven

Written by: Joe Kenda
Narrated by: Tim Campbell, Bradford Hastings
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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.

©2023 Joseph Patrick Kenda (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing
Crime Crime Fiction Fiction Hard-Boiled Mystery Police Procedural Thriller Murder Exciting Scary Detective Suspense

What the critics say

"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." (AudioFile)

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While we’ll likely never know how much of the story came from the case Kenda insinuates inspired it, I find it hard to believe that truth makes up more than 10% of this extremely basic beach thriller. Still, it is a fun read, with an excellent narrator who kept the characters straight for me with a unique performance for each one (though I did miss Joe Kenda’s iconic voice for his own character).

It is exploitational, lurid, bloody and everything you could want from a breezy summer read. But maybe not everything I wanted from Joe Kenda. I liked the messiness of his stories, how they didn’t fall into basic cop fiction tropes but explored mundane tragedies. This is very much a catch-the-psychopath-serial-killer-before-he-strikes-again jaunt, just with a fictionalized Kenda on the case - except he never really, as far as we know, took on big international cases where he hunted down former mercenaries on a for-fun killing spree.

It wasn’t what I hoped for, nor expected, but it was entertaining enough.

Good Enough, but basic Pulp

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Not to give it away, but keeps it glued together. From my understanding this was real.

Kenda's fiction detective work goes to next level

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I love Joe Kenda’s stories, even the fictional ones I cannot wait for the next one! He has a way with storytelling that keeps you interested

Interesting story, great narration

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