Jonathan Valin
Birth date: November 23, 1947
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I did not like this entry in the series quite as well as some of the previous ones because the main character, PI Harry Stoner, let his nostalgia for the sixties override his usual common sense but it was well written and the journey through the drug culture of mid- eighties Cincinnati seemed authen...
cd: Who are your writing influences?Valin: Well, I really don't have any except maybe Dashiell Hammett. cd: Who did you read when you were young? Valin: Books which were assigned to me for school projects.cd: In school, what were your interests?Valin: Not much of anything except getting throu...
Great entry in this PI series set in Cincinnati. Harry Stoner is hired by the professional football team in Cincy to find one of their players who has gone AWOL from training camp. Excellent plot with well-rounded, realistic characters.
Harry is hired by a large Cincy based corporation that produces soap operas to look into the death of one their head writers.