Les Roberts, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-312-08746-3
The prolific Roberts's fourth mystery (after Deep Shaker ) starring Cleveland-based Slovene ex-cop Milan Jacovich is his most ambitious work thus far. Here, global politics and wartime atrocities figure in the death of an old Serb, Bogdan Zdrale....
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Les Roberts. Gray (www.grayco.com), $24.95 (259p) ISBN 978-1-938441-09-7
Roberts's 16th Milan Jacovich mystery (after 2011's The Cleveland Creep) finds the Cleveland PI almost as tired and prickly as his dialogue as he takes on the case of federally indicted city councilman Berton K. Loftus, who's convinced he's been...
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Les Roberts. Minotaur, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-56633-3
Set in 1985, this disappointing suspense novel from Roberts (The Chinese Fire Drill) falls flat with a stagnant plot and uninspired characters. When Vietnam veteran Dominick Candiotti returns to his hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, for the funeral of...
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Les Roberts. Gray (www.grayco.com), $24.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-59851-071-3
Michael Harvey fans will appreciate Roberts's 15th Milan Jacovich mystery, which offers a more engaging story line than its predecessor, King of the Holly Hop (2008). A new client, Savannah Dacey, asks the Cleveland PI to find her 28-year-old son,...
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Les Roberts, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-20499-0
Signs plastered around Cleveland's Sherman College campus identify Jason Crowell as a rapist. They don't bother to identify his victim. Poor Jason is reviled, suspended from classes and desperate. His best friend is convinced of his innocence, but...
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Les Roberts, Author Thomas Dunne Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-25217-5
Milan Jacovich is the kind of guy who insists on telling you about everything he puts in his mouth. Some of it is moderately interesting (where else could you learn that Winston cigarettes are ""the vice of choice of most Slovenians""?). But does...
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Les Roberts, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-16801-8
As in his seven previous adventures, including last year's Collision Bend, Cleveland PI Milan Jacovich once again gets warned, threatened, bashed and slashed. This time out, he even gets fire-bombed. Cleveland attorney Joel Kerner Jr. is shot and...
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Les Roberts, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14570-5
When someone strangles promising local TV newscaster Virginia Carville, Cleveland PI Milan Jacovich gets a call he wants to refuse, but can't. His former lover, Mary Soderberg, a sales executive at the TV station, asks Milan to help the man she...
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Les Roberts, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-312-13473-0
Slovenian sleuth Milan Jacovich, seen last in The Lake Effect, once again has the run of the city on Lake Erie in this warm-hearted series. Ethnic to the core, loyal to friends, beset by strong views, Jacovich is an opinionated, anachronistic soul...
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Les Roberts, Author Thomas Dunne Books $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-18663-0
In the ninth Milan Jacovich mystery (The Cleveland Local, 1997, etc.), Roberts makes fine narrative use of the unlikely mix of Cleveland's blue-collar ethnic traditions with the fairy tale world of a movie shoot. PI Jacovich, depressed since the...
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Les Roberts, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-312-10490-0
Southern California PI and occasional bit actor Saxon follows a trail of mail-order brides in this sixth entry (after Seeing the Elephant ) in a superior series. A washed-up comedy star hires Saxon to find his wife, a Hong Kong native named Doll...
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Les Roberts, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-312-05855-5
Again employing his Cleveland, Ohio, setting (as in Full Cleveland ) Roberts presents private eye Milan Jacovich in his third appearance. Here Jacovich becomes embroiled in the drug trade while trying to help childhood friend Matt Baznik, whose son...
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Les Roberts, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-26579-3
A distraught father asks Milan Jacovich, Cleveland's dogged Slovenian-American private eye, to discover why his daughter Ellen jumped off of a bridge to her death, in Roberts's 12th workmanlike whodunit (after 2000's The Indian Sign)....
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Les Roberts, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-312-04424-4
Author of the Milan Jacovic adventures, Roberts also writes expert procedural novels colorfully narrated by an L.A. private eye named Saxon, a likeable tough guy with a soft heart. Although he is put off by wealthy land developer George Amptman, the
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Les Roberts, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-312-02554-0
Sex and exploitation are the same at the top and the bottom in this private-eye tale that moves from Hollywood to Laguna Beach to Tijuana. Private eye and semi-successful actor Saxon--the lack of further identification is a tiresome affectation--take
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Les Roberts, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-312-01485-8
Robbie Bingham is an aspiring young actor and part-time male hustler; Steven Brandon is the powerful programming chief of a major network. The only thing they will ever share is a stop sign in Beverly Hills. As their cars draw abreast of each other,
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Les Roberts, Author St. Martin's Press $12.95 (165p) ISBN 978-0-312-00610-5
A movie actor and moonlighting private eye called Saxon is the narrator of Roberts's debut. Machismo, sex, racy dialogueall the trappingsdefine the thriller but do not a Sam Spade make. Saxon moves around Los Angeles and its environs when beautiful...
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Les Roberts, Author Minotaur Books $21.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-11537-1
Although Cleveland PI Milan Jacovich, last seen in The Cleveland Connection, comes up against murder, violence, the mob, devious electioneering, a burgeoning love affair and even some timorous pedophilia, his new case is as flat as a Midwest...
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Les Roberts, Author . Gray $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-59851-038-6
Murder mars Milan Jacovich's 40th high school reunion in Roberts's routine 14th mystery to feature the Cleveland PI (after 2002's The Irish Sports Pages
). When Dr. Phil Kohn, “the class snotnose,” is found shot to death...
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Les Roberts, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/ Dunne $23.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-312-28661-3
Slovenian-American ex-cop-turned-PI Jacovich finds himself up to his eyeballs in crime in Roberts's latest roller-coaster ride of a mystery (after 2001's The Dutch). When William Poduska, a two-bit thug with a long list of aliases, ends up...
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Les Roberts, Author . Five Star $23.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-7862-3760-9
After 15 years and 18 mysteries featuring either Saxon, a Hollywood actor/private investigator, or Milan Jacovich, a Cleveland private investigator, the author takes a break from the genre that has netted him two Shamus Awards to try his hand at an...
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Les Roberts, Author, Lee Roberts, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-312-03349-1
Cleveland sleuth Milan Jacovich (last met in Pepper Pike ) again has his hands full in this amusing, uncomplicated mystery. A ``full Cleveland'' is a polyester or seersucker suit, enhanced by a white patent-leather belt and matching shoes. The mob...
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Margaret Press, Author, Les Roberts, Author St. Martin's Press $5.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-96218-0
This fourth Milan Jacovich mystery, about the murder of a retired Serbian factory worker, is ""a brave, satisfying story,"" said PW. (June)
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Les Roberts. Gray (grayco.com), $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-938441-71-4
In Roberts's workmanlike 18th whodunit featuring Milan Jacovich (after 2013's Win, Place, or Die with Dan Kennedy), the Cleveland PI searches for a killer in a quiet Ohio community. After the first two murders in Queenstown's history overwhelm the...
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Les Roberts with Dan S. Kennedy. Gray, $24.95 (274p) ISBN 978-1-938441-84-4
In Roberts’s rollicking 19th mystery featuring PI Milan Jacovich (after 2015’s The Ashtabula Hat Trick), coauthored with Kennedy, 2,000 guests willing to fork over a substantial entrance fee arrive at Cleveland’s Renaissance Hotel, hoping to learn...
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