The Cleveland Local (Milan Jacovich Series #8) »

Les Roberts, a native Chicagoan, lives in his adopted hometown of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Past president of the Private Eye Writers of America, Roberts won the initial PWA/St. Martin's Press Best First Private Eye Novel Contest in 1986. He is the author of eight Milan Jacovich Mysteries.

A vacation to die for

When hot shot Cleveland real estate attorney Joel Kerner Jr. is killed on a Caribbean holiday, only his angry sister Patrice thinks it's more than a botched robbery. The island police have nothing and the Cleveland cops don't have the jurisdiction to track it down. So when burly P.I. Milan Jacovich is hired to swim through the mire, he's on his own.

Distracted by family feuds and nasty business dealings, Milan discovers that Kerner's father is a very famous-and very rich-union attorney who has made some powerful and angry enemies in Cleveland. Milan, a tough ex-football player, is not easy to push around, but when he's stabbed, beaten, and almost burned to death, no one is safe from his suspicions-until insider news of the an investment gone wrong sends him knocking on the right door. Unfortunately, there's a catch, and Milan is dangerously close to getting tangled in a barbed-wire net.

Les Robert's "The Cleveland Local" is a deftly written, cold-blooded murder mystery. This four cassette, six hour, audiobook features Milan Jacovich, a private investigator who gets caught up among feuding families and money politics when a big-name real estate attorney is killed while on a Caribbean holiday. Narrated with dramatic flair by the author, "The Cleveland Local" is a hard-hitting, plot twisting saga that keeps the listener keenly interested until the very end.