Tipping the Valet
A Workplace Mystery
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Affable young parking valet Tyler Benson, a master of bad timing, is accidentally involved in cases of auto theft and murder on the lot at Alba, an upscale Seattle restaurant. There’s a body in a parked car, and someone shooting at tech zillionaire Scott Duckworth. Mysterious Italian beauty Flavia Torcelli and even Tyler’s spectacularly unsuccessful dad seem somehow connected to the crime wave. The more Tyler tries to sort things out, the more the police are convinced he’s the guilty party. …Oh, and a collection of inept but homicidal Russian mafiosi seems to be after him, too. “A canny sense of humor and timing… Beck is masterly in pulling all these madcap threads together even as the rollicking suspense threatens to careen out of control (but never does).”—Publishers Weekly (starred review 7/6/15)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A canny sense of humor and timing elevate Beck's series opener about a na ve Seattle valet-parking attendant's brush with Russian mafiosi. All Tyler Benson wants to do is complete his undergraduate courses at the University of Washington, collect generous tips from his valet job at a posh Seattle restaurant, and keep his alcoholic father, Roger, from embarrassing him at work. But when Roger shows up wearing Ugg slippers no less on the same night that there's a drive-by shoot-out at the restaurant, things get complicated: Tyler finds a gun. Roger loses a slipper. A dead body turns up in the trunk of a car that was parked in the restaurant parking lot. And, in a seemingly unrelated subplot, expensive cars are going missing and one of Tyler's coworkers brags about his "other business interests." Beck (Bad Neighbors) is masterly in pulling all these madcap threads together even as the rollicking suspense threatens to careen out of control (but never does).
