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Title: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Author: Ed Gorman

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

At the height of the Cold War, a dead woman turns up in a bomb shelter.

Black River Falls used to be a boring small town, but at the pinnacle of the Cuban Missile Crisis, nowhere in America can be boring anymore. As the country awaits nuclear annihilation, Iowa gubernatorial favorite Ross Murdoch has a crisis of his own: There is a dead woman in his bomb shelter.

Murdoch tells his lawyer, Sam McCain, that the corpse was planted there by his enemies in the local police force, and begs McCain to clear his name before Election Day. The dead woman was mistress to four of the towns most powerful men - any of whom might have wanted her dead. As the nations nuclear paranoia reaches a fever pitch, McCain searches for a killer and learns that there are certain kinds of disaster for which even the finest bomb shelter is no match.

Members Reviews:

A solid murder mystery set in the early 1960s

Reading one of the late Ed Gorman's Sam McCain mysteries is like going back in time and visiting the small town where you grew up. The people are comfortable and familiar. Gorman peppered his stories with nostalgic references to Gold Medal paperback novels, rock stars of the fifties and current events from the Eisenhower-Kennedy era. This book takes place in 1962, against a backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when all-out nuclear war seemed a real possibility.

A candidate for governor finds a dead body in his newly built bomb shelter and hires small town lawyer and investigator Sam McCain to represent him. McCain's investigation uncovers a variety of dark secrets, betrayals and more murders. Like all the books in the series, this one is a solid, competent murder mystery. Well done, Mr. Gorman. Well done.

Another great entry in a brilliant series from a master storyteller!

This is a very special 'private eye' series build around a lawyer and special court investigator, Sam McCain, in a small town in the midwest (Iowa) in the fifties and sixties. I absolutely love this series for several reasons:

1. the wonderful immersion into a different time, spanning a decade from the late fifties to the late sixties. The descriptions are detailed, evocative, engaging and realistic. They are exceptionally well done.

2. The protagonist is a likeable average joe, who is easy to identify with and tells the stories in the first person. His back story is as engaging and interesting as the murder mysteries he gets involved in, and has become the main reason why I have become hooked on this series.

3. I like Sam McCain's world view. He is particularly adverse to any extremist tendencies (MCarthy witch hunts, Beatle records burning, religious bigotry, snake handling churches, etc) and any form of social snobbery and elitism. Yet through all the turmoil (of which there was a lot in the fifties/early sixties), he retains a great sense of humor, which will have you smiling on and off, throughout the entire series.

4. There are plenty of connections to the pop culture of the fifties and sixties, which is a bonus for any lover of music, books, cinema and culture of the period.

5. The mysteries are well crafted and keep you guessing until the end.

6. Every single one of the entries in these series is excellent without exception and well worth the read.

Give this a try, you won't regret it.