Lineup
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4.4 • 14 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Liad Shoham, the #1 bestselling author in Israel, makes his American debut with Lineup—a superbly plotted, uncompromising crime thriller.
A brutal rape in a quiet Tel Aviv neighborhood has the police baffled. There are no witnesses, suspects, or clues, until the victim’s father steps in and finds overwhelming evidence pointing to Ziv Nevo.
Veteran detective Eli Nahum questions Nevo, but can’t get anything out of him. That’s because Nevo has a secret. He works for the mafia, and telling the truth about why he was near the crime scene could get him killed.
Lineup focuses on these two men, detective and suspect, as they both end up betraying what they value most, fighting for their lives, and struggling make amends for their mistakes in this gritty, fast-paced, complex novel of suspense.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Only at the end of this brilliantly constructed crime thriller, the first by Israeli Shoham available in English, does the author's ingenuity in intersecting lives and story lines become apparent. The rape at knife point of 24-year-old Adi Regev just outside her Tel Aviv apartment building prompts Adi's enraged father, Yaron, to stake out her place in the hope of catching her assailant. During a nightlong vigil, Yaron spots someone acting suspiciously who matches Adi's description of the rapist and follows him. Yaron later describes the man in sufficient detail to Insp. Eli Nachum for the police to arrest Ziv Nevo, who has a shady past. Irregularities in the lineup that includes Nevo and Adi's uncertainty whether they have the right man complicate the investigation. Alternating perspectives revealing the inner lives of the characters including Nachum, Nevo, the prosecutor on the case, and an ambitious journalist enrich the plot.
