Crimes of the City (Missing Mysteries #3) [Paperback]

Robert Rosenberg (Author)

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Publication Date: September 1, 2001

"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.

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Jerusalem cop Avram Cohen contends with religious, political and international tensions while he searches for the killer of two nuns in Rosenberg's impressive thriller.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press (September 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1890208817
• ISBN-13: 978-1890208813
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,639,650 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jerusalem syndrome at its most gritty., May 6, 1999

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This review is from: Crimes of the City (Mass Market Paperback)

Avram Cohen is a believable guy. His people and his milieu come across as modern and as troubled as the newspapers, yet with a fully developed sense of reality. Here are characters you can understand, and an entrance into another culture and a whole set of problems that make daily life a hazardous occupation. Avram is a policeman and a good one, and he is also a man bothered by the insensate world of his surroundings. To be along on the pathways of his solution to a series of brutal crimes is to be invited into Israeli life as it is today. The beauty of timeless scenery set against the fanaticism of zelotry makes you want more of Rosenberg's Cohen series.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A complex detective, August 8, 2010

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This review is from: Crimes of the City (Missing Mysteries #3) (Paperback)

This was the first Rosenberg novel I read and I was captivated from page one. The narrator is a multi-layered complex human being with a sense of humor and a stubborn don't-mess-with-me attitude.The plot twists and turns with many complicated clues. After finishing the book, I immediately ordered some of his others.