Books : Mystery & Thrillers : Authors, A-Z : ( R ) : Rosenberg, Robert

• Home
• US Store
• Electronics
• Computers
• Sitemap

Books : Mystery & Thrillers : Authors, A-Z : ( R ) : Rosenberg, Robert

• House of Guilt (Missing Mystery, 25)

  Robert Rosenberg

  
  
   

• An Accidental Murder: An Avram Cohen Mystery

  Robert Rosenberg

  

  "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.

  
   

• Crimes of the City

  Robert Rosenberg

  
  “A superior thriller, very well written, sensitively and beautifully plotted.”
  
  — New York Times Book Review
  
  In a holy city, even saints can be suspects...It was the time of the intifada, a season of hatred and fear in the city called Jerusalem, the City of Peace...Criminal Investigations Department Commander Avram Cohen faces a terrible double murder of two Russian nuns, mother and daughter, members of the Russian Orthodox convent in Ein Kerem. The KGB baby-sitter for the Red Russian mission in the Holy Land is embarrassed, the police are embarrassed, the Knesset is embarrassed-even the Prime Minister exerts pressure for a quick solution...
  
  “The lessons that Robert Rosenberg learned covering the Jerusalem crime beat as a reporter have been put to excellent use in this intricate tale of murder and madness in that holiest of cities.”—Jonathan Kellerman
  
  Avram Cohen returns in House of Guilt (1-890208-41-8 $14.95), originally published by Scribner. Journalist Rosenberg lives in Israel.
  
   

• The Cutting Room: An Avram Cohen Mystery (Crime, Penguin)

  Robert Rosenberg

  
  The author of Crimes of the City brings Israeli detective Avram Cohen to the United States to solve the murder of a Hollywood director friend found dead in his editing room. 12,500 first printing.