Gray & Company, Publishers

#11 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . .

Veteran private eye Milan Jacovich (it's pronounced MY-lan YOCK-ovitch) is rarely surprised. But his attention is grabbed one day by a Native American man wearing traditional clothing and waist-length, iron gray braids, sitting across the street from his suburban Cleveland apartment for twelve hours in a driving snowstorm.

When the old man is found murdered and floating in the river the very next day, Milan feels the unsettling urge to do something about it.

He's already working on another case—a simple one, he thinks. The CEO of a local toy company has hired him for a background check on his new accountant, David Ream. Milan quickly learns Ream is not at all what he seems to be, and the case gets very messy, very fast.

Dancing dangerously between the two cases, Milan runs into more murder and a suspense-filled finish including a shoot-out in the fountain plaza at downtown Tower City.

Reviews

Page turner of the week . . . Narrative comfort food . . . A nifty spin on a classic P.I. formula. — People Magazine

A solidly paced narrative . . . Recommended to readers who enjoy the modern PI knight-errant. — Booklist

About Les Roberts

Les Roberts is the author of 16 mystery novels featuring Cleveland detective Milan Jacovich, as well as 11 other books. The past president of both the Private Eye Writers of America and the American Crime Writer's League, he came to mystery writing after a 24-year career in Hollywood. He was the first producer and head writer of the Hollywood Squares and wrote for The Andy Griffith Show, The Jackie Gleason Show, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., among others. He has been a professional actor, a singer, a jazz musician, a teacher, and a film critic. In 2003 he received the Sherwood Anderson Literary Award. A native of Chicago, he now lives in Northeast Ohio. More About Les Roberts

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Beachwood, Cedar Hill , Cleveland Author, Cleveland Mysteries, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland Press, Kent State, Milan Jacovich, Nighttown, Pepper Pike, Shaker Heights, Slovenian Americans, Stroh's , Terminal Tower, Tower City