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Title: No Man Standing

Author: Barbara Seranella

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-26-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Munch Mancini is on a mission to save an old friend, before her old life catches up to her. Miranda Munch Mancini has transformed her life, from low-life junkie to high-class mechanic, respected businesswoman, and mother. But life hasnt been as forgiving for her old friend Ellen Summers. Munch and Ellen were an inseparable pair in their youth, but when Munch went straight, Ellen went to prison. One day before shes to be released from prison, Ellens mother and stepfather are murdered. When the killer threatens Ellen, she turns to Munch as the only person she can trust. While Munch questions some of her friends story, the danger she is in proves to be all too real. Munch is determined to find the murderer and save her friend one last time - before the killer ends her crime solving days for good.

Members Reviews:

Another winner from Barbara Seranella

Munch Mancini is a truly interesting protagonist. She's a recovering addict/alcoholic, and while AA meetings are not part of the plots, her recovery is -- and feels realistic and authentic to the character. You can't help but root for her -- and ready to jump into her next adventure.

I've read the books in order to date (having recently come across the. In "recommended" on Amazon) -and am looking forward to the remaining books, as well as hoping the author continues the series.

One can't have too many friends

In NO MAN STANDING, ex-bad girl Munch Mancini is now eight years down the straight and narrow after giving up alcohol, drugs, sexual promiscuity, and bikers. An ace auto mechanic and owner of a struggling limo business, Munch is moving into a new house with her adopted daughter, Asia, when an old friend in need shows up.

Ellen Summers was Mancini's best gal-pal in the rough old days, and is just released from her latest stint in the California Institution for Women, a penal facility. Summers is being sought by vicious killers who want returned a very large sum of counterfeit Franklins that she found and hid before her most recent imprisonment. The first bodies in a growing pile are those of Ellen's Mom and stepfather. Meanwhile, Munch is being harassed by the jealous ex of a poor choice of lovers, and she doesn't need the heavy baggage that Ellen has brought to her and Asia's doorstep.

By design or not, assigning Ellen a major role in this fifth book of the Munch Mancini series was true inspiration by author Barbara Seranella. Summers is at least a pale reflection of Seranella's protagonist before she became a contributing member of society. For those steady readers of the series, who perhaps thought that Munch was becoming too middle-class, or for those being introduced to Munch for the first time, Ellen is a much-needed reminder of Mancini's former low-life edginess. That aspect, plus the ending plot twist of NO MAN STANDING, extends my interest in the series as a whole, the storylines of which will need to be unpredictable to keep me returning for more. While the last chapter gives a too obvious hint to the evolution of Mancini's love life in the next book, I trust the author will surprise us.

The back flap of NO MAN STANDING reveals that Barbara Seranella ran away at fourteen from the showcase upper middle-class enclave of Pacific Palisades, CA, joined a San Francisco hippie commune, rode with outlaw bikers, and became an auto mechanic.