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Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union, and his team search for a serial killer who has claimed at least 40 victims while protecting a visiting British journalist who is working on a story about a Moscow prostitution ring ...
Four years after the death of his wife, Lew Fonesca has made a new life for himself in Sarasota, Florida, doing small-time criminal investigations. When he is asked to prove the innocence of 17-year-old Ronnie Graell, who stands accused of murdering a wealthy politician, Fonesca ...
A local minister asks Lew Fonesca to find a town council member who has gone missing just before a crucial vote, and a distraught father comes to Lew for help in tracking down his wife and kids.
When the target of an extradition case in Arizona is gunned down, detective Abe Lieberman pursues the killer's identity, while priest Bill Hanrahan struggles with a racist and sexist colleague who thwarts a rape investigation.
Scratching out a living as a process server in Sarasota, Florida, four years after the hit-and-run death of his wife in Chicago, Lew Fonesca returns to his hometown, determined to uncover the truth about the "accident" that claimed his wife's life.
Somewhere in Israel Near the Jordan Border, 1973: On a desert road outside a small Israeli town, two Muslim families ride home in a battered van. The children joke and play. The adults argue about money, and Ali Mohammed drives nervously. The night is dark. Suddenly, the windshie...
An elderly woman swears she witnessed a murder in her old-age home despite the fact that everyone she tells her story to--her family, the hospital staff, and finally the cops--all tell her that it just couldn't have happened. A 14-year-old boy has been killed by a hit and run dri...
In Chicago, a burglar sees a husband kill his wife. So the husband calls the police and says his wife was murdered by a burglar. Sergeant Abe Lieberman is given the job of finding the burglar, now in hiding.
A local curmudgeon who has been campaigning to end state-sponsored school funding is brutally killed. A recent graduate of a public high school for the gifted is arrested for the crime and turns to Lew for help. A semi-retired and much beloved singer of children's songs is being ...
"Crime in post-communist Russia has only gotten worse: rubles are scarce; blood, plentiful. In the eyes of Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and his metropolitan police team, newfound democracy has unleashed the desperation that pushes people over the edge, and has emboldened those alr...
Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union, is a sharp and caring policeman as well as the perfect tour guide to a changing Russia. Rostnikov and his team are searching for a serial killer who has claimed at least 40 victims. ...
Detectives Abe Lieberman and Bill Hanrahn, Chicago's odd couple, are busy tracking a pair of low-rent thieves and finding out what really happened to a man who predicted his own death.
When his longtime friend Sheldon Minck is arrested for the murder of his estranged wife, Mildred, private detective Toby Peters is hired by film legend Joan Crawford to solve the crime and prevent negative publicity from tarring her name.