185 episodes
Riordan's Desk Mark Coggins
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4.7 • 7 Ratings
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Crime fiction by Mark Coggins featuring private investigator August Riordan. Each season is a one chapter/one episode reading of a Riordan novel by the author. Season 1 is THE DEAD BEAT SCROLL, a book the New York Journal of Books called a “Glorious potpourri of violence, black humor … sex, and a hunt for a lost manuscript.” Note that the podcast is intended for mature audiences and includes curse words, violence and sex.
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The Big Wake-Up, Chapter 1 - Cable Car Crunch
The odyssey of María Eva Duarte de Perón—the Argentine first lady made famous in the play and the movie Evita—was as remarkable in death as it was in life. A few years after she succumbed to cervical cancer, her specially preserved body was taken by the military dictatorship that succeeded her deposed husband Juan. Hidden for sixteen years in Italy in a crypt under a false name, she was eventually exhumed and returned to Buenos Aires to be buried in an underground tomb said to be secure enough to withstand a nuclear attack.
Or was she?
When San Francisco private eye August Riordan engages in a flirtation with a beautiful university student from Buenos Aires, he witnesses her death in a tragic shooting and is drawn into mad hunt for Evita’s remains. He needs all of his wits, his network of friends and associates, and an unexpected legacy from the dead father he has never known to help him survive the deadly intrigue between powerful Argentine movers and shakers, ex-military men, and a mysterious woman named Isis who is expert in ancient techniques of mummification.
The fifth novel in the August Riordan series, The Big Wake-Up plunges everyman PI Riordan and his sidekick Chris Duckworth into their most terrifying and anguishing case ever.
In Chapter 1, Riordan's visit to the Missing Sock Laundromat takes a tragic turn.
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The Big Wake-Up, Chapter 2 - A Universe of Stars, a Galaxie of Dents
Chris Duckworth visits Riordan at his Post Street apartment.
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The Big Wake-Up, Chapter 3 - Necrophobia
Riordan attends the vigil for Araceli Rivero.
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The Big Wake-Up, Chapter 4 - Cementerio de la Recoleta
Riordan meets the rest of Araceli’s family.
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The Big Wake-Up, Chapter 5 - Stay for the Worms
Riordan visits Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland.
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The Big Wake-Up, Chapter 6 - True Confessions
Riordan shares some family history.
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Customer Reviews
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If you enjoy classic and contemporary noir detective fiction, you will NOT be disappointed. It’s important to state that this is season based audio book readings, by a single narrator, broken into chapter episodes. That being said, the stories themselves are fantastic and immersive contemporary noir detective fiction. This is not family friendly. I would recommend that a potential trigger warning be mentioned in the episode summaries. As a person that pays attention to trigger warnings I find them very helpful. I strongly recommend this podcast.