Gravedigger
A Dave Brandstetter Mystery, Book 4
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Narrated by:
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Keith Szarabajka
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Joseph Hansen
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A runaway girl leads Dave Brandstetter to confront a California sex cult.
Serenity ran away from home when her father was convicted of bribery. For two years, she drifted around the American Southwest, finally finding refuge in the arms of Azrael, a charismatic cult leader whose religion was founded upon blood. Long after Serenity's disappearance, the police find a mass grave containing six dead girls on Azrael's property. Thinking his daughter has been murdered, Serenity's father claims her life insurance, and promptly disappears. Now it's Dave Brandstetter's problem.
An insurance investigator with a keen eye and a skeptical mind, Dave is no stranger to savagery. But his trip to the high-priced suburbs of Los Angeles will teach him something new about the depths of human cruelty - and Azrael's mass grave is only the beginning.
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Another winner
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Joseph Hansen relates another suspenseful tale he allows us to follow insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter closes in on a case of a “deceased” young woman. His job is to find cases of insurance fraud and he shows us exactly how it’s done with humor and his own brand of Brandstetter charm. Keith Szarabajka and Joseph Hansen have a perfection indeed. I can’t imagine one without the other. Quite a few in this this series as available at no cost from Audible Plus catalogue. Recommended? Hell, yes! Get it now and enjoy more in this superb series.
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