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Title: Unpaid Dues

Author: Barbara Seranella

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-26-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Munch Mancinis deepest fears about her past come to light after a brutal murder.

Miranda Munch Mancini has worked hard to overcome her past life as a hard-living street junkie, including cutting ties with the people she used to run with. Shes caught by surprise when an old friend turns up dead, and Munchs photo appears in the womans criminal file, connecting Munch to a crime shes worked hard to put behind her.

With the police investigation of the murder pointing to a terrifying figure in Munchs past, she doesnt know what to fear more: the dangerous killer or the truth about her past finally being revealed.

Members Reviews:

Flashback

I'm cheering for Munch and not just because the story is great. I've lived through some of the same kinds of story. On my own at 14 I ended up in San Francisco instead of LA. So even though the story takes place a little later and in a different locale, I can relate and giggle through so much of it, as I recognizing people/characters from my own past. Love them all so far.

unpaid dues

good read for holidays you dont need to think too hard to work out the story it is quite funny in places

Munchy urban noir thriller

After some heavy rains, a woman's body is found in the drainage sewer at the exclusive Riveria Country Club. The woman was badly beaten and her body tied to two cinder blocks so that she would sink without a trace. LAPD detective Mace St. John, back on the job after suffering a heart attack four months ago, leads the investigation. He learns the victim is Jane Ferran.

When he looks at her file he sees Munch Mancini's face with Jane's name underneath it. When he goes to question Munch, she tells him that she used her friend's name when she was arrested for a DUI. Munch has a feeling one of her druggie friends from years ago might have killed Jane but she can't tell Mace about it because she would implicate herself in a decade old triple homicide. It is only when it looks like Thor is going to kill anyone connected to that incident does she come forward and offers herself up as bait to trap a killer.

Munch is an ex-druggie, a recovering alcoholic and a former prostitute but she has turned her life around. She goes to AA meetings, has an adopted daughter and has a good job working as a mechanic in Brentwood. She is a role model for people who want to start over and make something of his or herself. The perpetrator of the murder will come as a shock to the reader because everyone involved in the case is missing a vital piece of information. Barbara Seranella, known for her urban noir thrillers, once again has created a realistic who-done-it that is both exciting and poignant.

Harriet Klausner

Beyond Genre

The Munch Mancini novels by Barbara Seranella are being marketed as "mystery fiction" and "crime novels." That is a blessing and a pitty as these books are often dismissed by literary snobs as inferior because of average writing and flat characters. Barbara Seranella is an excellent writer! And Munch is one of the best characters in ALL of fiction. She came from an upper middle class family, fell into a terrible life of drugs, sex, and mayhem, and then pulled herself out of it. A simple summary of the novels is that Munch-day by day- struggles to hold onto her new life. And there are plenty of people and events cropping up to pull her back into her old, bad ways.