The 14th book in the Milan Jacovich series by Les Roberts has just been released after a 6 year break with the intriguing title King of the Holly Hop. Milan Jacovich is a private investigator in the city of Cleveland, as many of the book titles attest. This is a series that maintains the flavor of the city within each of the books and it's an aspect of the series that is a contributing factor that keeps you coming back to the series. The Milan Jacovich series is still one of my favorite detective series and I happily keep returning to see how the Slovenian detective is handling things.
Here's the inside flap description of the book...
Going to your high school reunion is never fun. But this time, it's murder.
When Cleveland private eye Milan Jacovich reluctantly attends the fortieth reunion of his St. Clair High School graduating class, he gets a rude surprise: one of his classmates is found shot dead and another quickly becomes the main suspect.
The suspect, successful playwright Tommy Wiggins, draws Milan into the case--and puts him in a very awkward position. Investigating his former schoolmates is an uncomfortable task for Milan, as he soon discovers the dark secrets of people he only thought he knew.
The deceased Dr. Phil Kohn, it turns out, was a cad who managed to make more than a few enemies during his abbreviated life. But did a forty-year-old grudge really lead to his death? Or was it something more recent--a jealous spouse, a shady business partner?
Milan's hunt for the real killer leads him through the oddly intertwined worlds of Cleveland's medical community, organized crime, polite suburban society, and hard-core drug dealers.
It's a tough investigation in which Milan could lose many friends--and, if he's not careful, his life.
In the fourteenth book of his Milan Jacovich series, Les Roberts once again delivers a dose of real Cleveland characters and settings that bring the city to life on the page.
The Milan Jacovich series to date
Pepper Pike (1988)
Full Cleveland (1989)
Deep Shaker (1991)
The Cleveland Connection (1993)
The Lake Effect (1994)
The Duke of Cleveland (1995)
Collision Bend (1996)
The Cleveland Local (1997)
A Shoot In Cleveland (1998)
The Best-Kept Secret (1999)
The Indian Sign (2000)
The Dutch (2001)
The Irish Sports Pages (2002)
King of the Holly Hop (2008)
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