The Cleveland Local: A Milan Jacovich Mystery

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Macmillan, Dec 15, 1998 - Fiction - 288 pages
A vacation to die for

When hot shot Cleveland real estate attorney Joel Kerner Jr. is killed on a Caribbean holiday, only his angry sister Patrice thinks it's more than a botched robbery. The island police have nothing and the Cleveland cops don't have the jurisdiction to track it down. So when burly P.I. Milan Jacovich is hired to swim through the mire, he's on his own.

Distracted by family feuds and nasty business dealings, Milan discovers that Kerner's father is a very famous-and very rich-union attorney who has made some powerful and angry enemies in Cleveland. Milan, a tough ex-football player, is not easy to push around, but when he's stabbed, beaten, and almost burned to death, no one is safe from his suspicions-until insider news of the an investment gone wrong sends him knocking on the right door. Unfortunately, there's a catch, and Milan is dangerously close to getting tangled in a barbed-wire net.
 

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CHAPTER ONE
1
CHAPTER TWO
11
CHAPTER THREE
22
CHAPTER FOUR
37
CHAPTER FIVE
51
CHAPTER SIX
62
CHAPTER SEVEN
72
CHAPTER EIGHT
80
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
149
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
158
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
166
CHAPTER NINETEEN
179
CHAPTER TWENTY
184
CHAPTER TWENTYONE
192
CHAPTER TWENTYTWO
199
CHAPTER TWENTYTHREE
209

CHAPTER NINE
91
CHAPTER TEN
103
CHAPTER ELEVEN
109
CHAPTER TWELVE
115
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
120
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
128
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
143
CHAPTER TWENTYFOUR
223
CHAPTER TWENTYFIVE
234
CHAPTER TWENTYSIX
246
CHAPTER TWENTYSEVEN
255
CHAPTER TWENTYEIGHT
262
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About the author (1998)

Les Roberts, a native Chicagoan, lives in his adopted hometown of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Past president of the Private Eye Writers of America, Roberts won the initial PWA/St. Martin's Press Best First Private Eye Novel Contest in 1986. He is the author of eight Milan Jacovich Mysteries.

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