| The Lake Effect: A Milan Jacovich Mystery Contributor(s): Roberts, Les (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598510053 ISBN-13: 9781598510058 Publisher: Gray & Company Publishers OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: When moisture gathers over a large lake, the result is snow -- fast, heavy, fishtail flakes that seem to white-out every sin and crime. Milan Jacovich knows better. So when the local mob calls in a favor he owes, he's off to the Cleveland suburb of Lake Erie Shores to bodyguard Barbara Corns, a reluctant mayoral candidate. When the wife of her opponent is suspiciously killed, Jacovich's instincts lead him into a stew of organized crime secrets, a child porno ring, a vengeful cop, and a jealous lover. With time out for a tender new romance of his own, Milan's neck-deep in small-town politics and big-time trouble... |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005011233 |
| Series: Milan Jacovich Mysteries |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.16" W x 8" (0.64 lbs) 282 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Ohio - Locality - Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, Ohio |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: #5 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series ... Every Clevelander understands the lake effect, a weather condition that brings plenty of snow, especially in November when election time rolls around. Milan Jacovich (it's pronounced MY-lan YOCK-ovich), the genial Cleveland private eye, has never been a political animal. But he owes a favor to mobster Victor Gaimari, and Milan always pays his debts. So he agrees to play watchdog over a mayoral election in suburban Lake Erie Shores in which dowdy housewife Barbara Corns is challenging incumbent Gayton True. Everything seems calm on the surface--until True's wife, Princess, is run down in the street just outside downtown Cleveland's Tower City. It becomes obvious that there is more at stake than the mayor's chair in a quiet suburban city hall. And when he discovers that the True campaign has employed his old nemesis, disgraced ex-cop Al Drago, who carries a grudge a mile wide, Milan knows he's in for a lot rougher time of it than simply poll-watching. |
Contributor Bio(s): Roberts, Les: - Les Roberts is the author of 16 mystery novels featuring Cleveland detective Milan Jacovich, as well as 11 other books of fiction. 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. |