The Cleveland Creep
A Milan Jacovich Mystery
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4.6 • 10 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
#15 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . .
"A fun and fast paced mystery thriller, highly recommended." — Midwest Book Review
"Milan Jacovich is SO real. He nearly jumps off the pages." — CoolCleveland.com
A simple missing-person case gets complicated when Milan Jacovich (it's pronounced MY-lan YOCK-ovich) discovers that 28-year-old Earl Dacey left behind a strange collection of voyeuristic videos in his mother's West Side Cleveland house. Was Earl just a pervert shadowing Catholic schoolgirls in Northeast Ohio shopping malls with his hidden camera . . . or had he become entangled with unsavory characters in the local adult film business?
When Milan uncovers a possible link to organized crime, the FBI gets interested—and Milan's "well connected" friend Victor Gaimari gets angry. After a dead body turns up, the Cleveland Police take over, and Milan figures he's off the case. So why does crusty Lieutenant McHargue ask him to lend a hand?
Still feeling the effects of a recent concussion and well aware of his aging body, Milan takes the advice of a colleague and hires an assistant. Kevin O'Bannion is young and eager to learn the P.I. business. An Army veteran with combat experience and a juvenile-crime record, he definitely won't shy away from a fight. But will he be able to control his volatile temper and help get the job done? Milan finds out soon enough—with his own life on the line.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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, Earl, an unemployed loner who hasn't been heard from for about a week. Jacovich's search of Earl's room uncovers some home-made DVDs, which reveal that Earl has been going to malls with a video camera concealed in a bag and filming up women's skirts. Aided by a new probationary assistant, Kevin O'Bannion, Jacovich tries to track down some of Earl's victims as well as pornographers who may have bought his movies. A murder raises the stakes, and Jacovich encounters a promising love interest, an English teacher at a Catholic school whose students frequented one of the malls. Despite a relatively weak ending, solid prose and a consistent hard edge bode well for future installments.
