An Accidental Murder An Avram Cohen Mystery

by Rosenberg, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780743244169
• ISBN10: 0743244168
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-17
• Publisher: Scribner

Summary

"OF ALL HIS MANY REGRETS, IT WAS HIS DECISION TO WRITE HIS MEMORIES THAT AVRAM COHEN NOW REGRETTED THE MOST" Thus begins An Accidental Murder, the latest book in Robert Rosenberg's acclaimed Avram Cohen mystery series. In a tale that takes the retired Jerusalem detective from Germany's Frankfurt book fair to the Negev desert, as he searches for a murderer in Germany and ends up in the dark netherworld of the new Russian mafia in Israel, Avram Cohen is revealed as never before -- a man with a complex past that makes his future most uncertain. Someone wants to kill Cohen -- or so it seems -- possibly because of something he wrote in his memoir about his year as an avenger assassinating Nazis after his long-ago liberation from the Dachau concentration camp. But then his longtime protege Nissim Levy is found murdered on the road to Eilat. Is this a revenge killing somehow aimed at Cohen, or as Nissim's former assistant believes, could the Russian mafioso be involved? From private nightclubs where mafia kingpins entertain with vodka-drenched feasts to massage parlors where the women work with cold-blooded professionalism, Cohen's search for Levy's killer becomes a twisted journey into a new side of Israel hardly known to the outsider. On the way, Cohen must look back at his own guilt before he can unveil a killer with a misguided but nonetheless profound motive for murder. This finely drawn novel is, like all the Cohen novels, a portrait of a deeply complicated man trying hard to be moral in a world where greed rules. Building an atmosphere of personal pain and paranoia up until the very last pages of the book, Rosenberg gives us a tour de force.

Author Biography

Born in Boston, Robert Rosenberg is the author of Crimes of the City, The Cutting Room, and House of Guilt. A journalist and author living in Israel since the early 1970s, Rosenberg writes about Israel for many newspapers and magazines around the world. In addition to working on his fiction and nonfiction' writing, he is publisher and editor of www.ariga.com, a World Wide Web 'zine "publishing for business, pleasure, and peace, from the intersection of three continents." He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife, Silvia Cherbakoff, an artist and architect, and their daughter, Amber.