The Cleveland Local
A Milan Jacovich Mystery
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Publisher Description
#8 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . .
"Jacovich [is] one of the most fully-realized characters in modern crime fiction . . . Roberts is a confident writer who knows his character well and who has made him complex enough to be interesting." — Mostly Murder
"Roberts certainly creates a sense of place. Cleveland rings true—and he's especially skillful in creating real moral and ethical choices for his characters." — The Plain Dealer
Hotshot young Cleveland lawyer Joel Kerner is shotgunned to death on a lonely beach on the Caribbean island of San Carlos. The local police are inept, and the Cleveland cops can't operate outside their jurisdiction, so Kerner's sister Patrice comes to private eye Milan Jacovich (it's pronounced MY-lan YOCK-ovich) to discover the truth about her brother's murder.
Milan flies to San Carlos to investigate—a pleasant three-day working vacation that doesn't keep him from getting stabbed in an alley and rousted by a high-level international cop.
Back in Cleveland, he asks his best friend, homicide lieutenant Marko Meglich, for some unofficial help. But he runs up against Kerner's angry father, a world-famous labor attorney, along with the bevy of beautiful women Joel Kerner left behind and a powerful union leader known around town as "The Irish."
Milan marches forward to solve the case, though it will eventually cause him a tragic and insupportable personal loss.
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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 killed while on a vacation tour of the Caribbean island of San Carlos. While the local police are quick to write it off as a robbery attempt gone bad, Joel's sister, Patrice, is not convinced and hires Jacovich to investigate. A quick trip to the island, although not without peril, leads him to believe the answer to the killing lies in Cleveland, not San Carlos. The trail he follows takes him to Joel's fellow tourists, to his father (a lawyer) and a crusty, toupee-topped old-timer in charge of a union pension fund. Jacovich draws a familiar cast of characters, including Lieutenant Marko Meglich of the homicide department and newspaper columnist Ed Stahl, into danger as well. The straight-ahead, confrontational style of Jacovich produces results along with bruises, but this time catching the killer comes at a high personal cost. Low-key and reliable are descriptive of Jacovich and the stories in which he features.
