Chump Change
Leo Waterman Mystery
- By: G. M. Ford
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Description
Hearing a dying stranger call you by name would leave anyone full of questions. When it happens to private eye Leo Waterman, the more he learns about the late lottery winner's rags-to-riches-to-ruination life, the more he wants not just answers but justice. That means a road trip to Idaho to find out how a good-hearted young man with millions got skinned—in more ways than one.
It's all downhill from there as Leo gets roped into an ugly battle between elderly ranchers and a ruthless developer who knows how to make a killing. Money can’t buy happiness, but trying to take it from the wrong people could leave Leo a lot worse than miserable.
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Leo Waterman Mystery Series
The Bum's Rush
By: G. M. Ford
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
When a homeless woman says she’s the mother of a deceased rock idol, sometimes private eye Leo Waterman takes it upon himself to investigate the lady’s claim. With the help of “the Boys,” a band of dissolute deputies, Leo begins a life-threatening pursuit of the truth nobody wants to hear. Read more »
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Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca?
By: G. M. Ford
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
When an old gangster friend of Leo's father makes a request he "can't refuse," Leo and his band of drunks, delve into the world of environmental politics in search of Caroline Nobel, a spoiled brat, without the sense God gave a gopher. With the help of "the Boys"—a group of aging winos who are his modern day "Baker Street Irregulars"—Leo fights... Read more »
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Chump Change
By: G. M. Ford
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Hearing a dying stranger call you by name would leave anyone full of questions. When it happens to private eye Leo Waterman, the more he learns about the late lottery winner's rags-to-riches-to-ruination life, the more he wants not just answers but justice. That means a road trip to Idaho to find out how a good-hearted young man with millions...
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Heavy on the Dead
By: G. M. Ford
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
One body on the sunny beach is all it takes for PI Leo Waterman to feel a chill.
After seven months laying low in Ocean Beach, California, Seattle PI Leo Waterman has finally stopped looking over his shoulder—specifically, for the vengeful band of Washington white supremacists who blame Leo for blindsiding their big plans for America. Where...
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Cast in Stone
By: G. M. Ford
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Leo’s boyhood hero, Henry “Heck” Sundstrom, was larger than life. Lately, however, Heck’s life has been spiraling out of control. First there was the honeymoon boating accident that killed Heck’s son and new daughter-in-law, Allison. And now the big man himself is dying—struck down by a delivery truck in a seedy section of Seattle. As he... Read more »
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Thicker than Water
By: G. M. Ford
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Hard living collects its fair share of casualties, but somehow Leo Waterman avoided becoming one of them. Destined for a trust fund that was taking too damn long to kick in, he spent years eking out a living in Seattle as a private investigator. Along the way he managed to survive countless run-ins with murderers, drug dealers, and jealous...
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Soul Survivor
By: G. M. Ford
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
PI Leo Waterman is back at it—investigating a very domestic crime that turns into a national nightmare in this upbeat page-turner of a mystery.
Why would a teenager with no prior record suddenly assassinate a city councilman? Retired PI Leo Waterman wouldn’t have bothered finding out if an old pal hadn’t asked. And after the man, who is also the...
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Family Values
By: G. M. Ford
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Returning to Seattle after a business trip, retired PI Leo Waterman is shocked to find his girlfriend, Rebecca Duvall, unconscious on the bathroom floor, her house filled with gas. Officials believe it was a suicide attempt in the wake of a humiliating scandal. Under investigation for dereliction of duty, she’d been suspended from her job as...
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Salvation Lake
By: G. M. Ford
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
At the end of an especially raucous day at his neighborhood bar, private eye Leo Waterman is surprised to see his old flame, Rebecca Duval, walk in the door. But King County’s medical examiner is here on business, not pleasure. Two dead bodies, covered by an old coat that once belonged to Leo’s father, have turned up in the trunk of a car. The...
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Slow Burn
By: G. M. Ford
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Anticipating problems, a prestigious global restaurant convention hires Leo as Special Security Officer. His assignment: monitor the movements of two adversarial steakhouse competitors whose “beef” has previously made for some nasty confrontations and a food critic who’s caught in between the warring factions. Leo sends the Boys off to shadow...
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