Kill Me with Kindness

A Mike Lanson Mystery

De: R.R. (Russell Robert) Winterbotham writing as J. Harvey Bond

Narrado por: Lorraine Walters

A crime reporter investigates the case of the deadly do-gooder!

While Mike Lanson, reporter for the Gazette, was checking up on Clarence Proost, director of the Anti-Vice League, Proost was slain. There was a strip-tease dancer named Luzy who thought that "maybe" she murdered him. The police thought so too, but Mike didn't so he helped her hide out, hoping for the bigger story to break.

All the gangsters in town didn't care who killed whom, all they wanted were the blackmail files Luzy had in hiding with her. With everyone on the merry-go-round of murder, Mike knew the odds were high against the real kingpin of crime showing his head - but he was willing to risk his own as well as Luzy's to headline that story!

In this classic noir thriller you will meet:

• Mike Lanson, crime reporter for the Gazette - a journalistic bulldog who never lets go once he sinks his teeth into a story
• Lucrezia, also known as Mabel (Luzy) McGuire - a strip-tease artist whose career could soon be interrupted by death
• Clarence Proost, a professional do-gooder - who finds do-gooding often leads to death
• Mr. and Mrs. Manton Arkwright, a wealthy, middle-aged couple - active in the Proost's Citizens Anti-Vice League
• Brick Lorchetto, operator of the swank Hilltop gambling casino, whose extra-curricular activities could make him a target of blackmail, or murder - or even a killer
• Jim Bomo, Lorchetto's henchman and bodyguard - he'll do anything for his boss, even commit murder or multiple murders
• Ramcaster, county prosecutor - who knows everything going on in town but for some reason is reluctant to act

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Just ok

I had a hard time keeping my focus on this one. Overall a good story but didn’t keep me engaged

entertaining

There is no honor among thieves. The layers of corruption were complicated. Mike was one smart journalist. He was as tenacious as a good detective. The ending was a close call and pretty hair raising.I voluntarily listened to a free copy of this and am giving an honest review. The narrator did a great job bringing it to life.

A Blast from the Hardboiled Past

I'm a sucker for a hardboiled detective story, so I was excited to get into this one. I'd never read (or listened) to anything from J. Harvey Bond, but I'd heard the name. It didn't disappoint. "Kill Me with Kindness" was exactly what I expected it to be - a tight little mystery full of the usual hardboiled tropes of a stalwart hero (with a weakness for a pretty faces), on the outs with the authority and a web of murder, greed, and vice. The bar set for this genre is pretty high (the likes of Chandler, Hammett, and MacDonald), so did it achieve what they did? No. But it was still enjoyable for a fan of the genre.

Lorraine Walters did an excellent job with the narration, but I have to say it was a strange choice of narrators - a woman reading a story told in first person POV through a male main character. It was a bit jarring at first, but I settled into it after the first half hour or so, and it didn't bother me for the rest of the story.

Great story

I enjoyed Kill Me With Kindness by RR Winterbotham (J Harvey Bond). It’s an engaging noir story of a newspaperman investigating gambling and corrupt officials and murder. The narration by Lorraine Walters was very good!