When Milan Jacovich flies to a Caribbean island to look into the murder of hotshot Cleveland lawyer Joel Kerner, he is stabbed in an alleyway and roughed up by a high-level international cop. Back in Cleveland, he begs his best friend, homicide lieutenant Marko Meglich, for a little unofficial help, which takes him through all young Kerner’s ex-girlfriends, his angry father, a powerful union leader, and eventually a tragic and insupportable personal loss.

“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)

Excerpt: “I get nervous, too,” I told her. “When someone commits a murder and gets away with it.”

“Oh, dear,” she said. “This has been hard on everyone here. I mean, someone you know getting killed like that.”

She rose, pushing her glasses up on her nose with one finger. “Nothing personal, Mr. Jacovich, but I think it’d be better if you didn’t come back here again. I know you’ll understand.” She stood looking down at me with the Eiffel Tower poster behind her.

I put my notebook back into my pocket and got to my feet. “We’ll always have Paris,” I said.

Publisher: Gray & Company (2005)

Pages: 268

Original Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (1997)