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Narrated by John Rubinstein
Jonathan KellermanUnabridged — 15 hours, 38 minutes
Narrated by John Rubinstein
Jonathan KellermanUnabridged — 15 hours, 38 minutes
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From two #1 bestselling masters of crime fiction comes an extraordinary thriller about family, murder, and the secrets that refuse to stay buried.
It's been more than a year since LAPD detective Jacob Lev learned the remarkable truth about his family, and he's not coping well. He's back to drinking, he's not talking to his father, the LAPD Special Projects Department continues to shadow him, and the memory of a woman named Mai haunts him day and night.
And while Jacob has tried to build a bridge to his mother, she remains a stranger to him, imprisoned inside her own tattered mind.
Then he comes across the file for a gruesome unsolved murder that brings the two halves of his life into startling collision.
Finding the killer will take him halfway around the world, to Paris—the city of romance, but also of gritty streets, behind the lights. It's a dangerous search for truth that plunges him into the past.
And for Jacob Lev, there is no place more frightening.
Jonathan Kellerman has long been known for his mastery of criminal psychology and his ability to create thrilling novels of nuanced drama and suspense. But in The Golem of Paris, he and Jesse Kellerman raise that suspense to a whole new level.
From the Hardcover edition.
…a classically constructed detective story…that morphs into a supernatural thriller…it's hard to resist a protagonist who does battle with demonic giants and is in thrall to a woman who's part angel and part bug.
09/21/2015
The Kellermans’ uneven sequel to 2014’s The Golem of Hollywood finds Det. Jacob Lev of the LAPD assigned to a clerical job in a remote airplane hangar east of Los Angeles after antagonizing his superiors in his last case. Special Projects, a recently formed group, has Jacob under 24-hour surveillance. In his boredom, Jacob becomes engrossed in the unsolved Marquette case from 2004, in which a mother and her five-year-old son were found shot in the forehead, their bodies in posed positions with their eyelids removed. When Jacob discovers a similar murder previously committed in France, those in charge grudgingly allow him to travel to Paris to investigate. Jacob’s journey to uncover the killer leads him to explore several generations of interlocking family histories throughout Europe. The sophisticated, smart beginning, which interweaves interesting characters from different time frames, compensates only in part for the extended passages of tedious prose that bog down the novel’s second half. (Nov.)
Praise for The Golem of Paris
“A compelling mix of adventure, crime, and horror with paranormal and historical elements. The Golem of Paris is a fascinating and frightening glimpse into an imagined religious supernatural subcult [as well as] an engaging crime-solving tale.”—Kirkus Reviews
“A classically constructed detective story featuring the tormented hero of a previous book (The Golem of Hollywood) that morphs into a supernatural thriller combining elements of Jewish legend, religious mysticism, and pagan mythology.”—New York Times Book Review
“I don’t know how one might define ‘magic’ in the literary sense, but I can give you an example of it: The Golem of Paris. It is ostensibly a mystery, but it slides across genre boundaries—romance, supernatural, historical, liturgical- and obliterates them. It is a wonderful, haunting tale...Read, wonder, and enjoy for yourself.”—Bookreporter.com
“The Golem of Hollywood transcends genre. It’s a whole that exceeds the sum of its very considerable parts, creative and otherwise . . . a story so wonderfully told that your bookshelf must have it.” —Bookreporter.com
“One of the craziest, wildest, and most compelling works of popular fiction in years.”
—Commentary
“A witty, propulsive, and frequently chilling read . . . as ambitious as it is entertaining.” —Kirkus Reviews
2015-08-17
Detective Jacob Lev takes on a brutal cold case and discovers that the murder has connections to his mother's murky past, a scary Russian oligarch, and a recent murder in Paris. After his last case (The Golem of Hollywood, 2014, etc.), which had him questioning his sanity and sort-of believing in supernatural monsters of retribution and which landed him in crime-fighting purgatory, Jacob is assigned to archiving cold cases in an industrial warehouse. But one of them, the gruesome 2004 murder of a mother and son, piques his interest, possibly because of his own background—he had long believed his own mother to be dead, but she's now catatonic and living in a health care facility. Investigating the murder leads him to Paris, where a recent crime is an eerie echo of his case, and a Paris investigator seems determined not to see the connection. In pursuing his main suspect, a Russian billionaire, Jacob finds a chilling connection to his mother's past and a fateful trip she made to Czechoslovakia in her youth. Shadowing the investigation and his life are the enigmatic members of the Special Projects team and Mai, who's apparently the mythological golem and yet so much more. Father and son Kellermans continue their co-written Golem series with a fascinating and frightening glimpse into an imagined religious supernatural subculture and the very real brutality and inscrutability of Eastern Bloc secret police networks while also spinning an engaging crime-solving tale and setting up a more distinct Lev family link to the mysterious and unearthly events that will certainly keep popping up as long as Mai is free. A curious yet compelling mix of adventure, crime, and horror with paranormal and historical elements.
| BN ID: | 2940171935719 |
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| Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
| Publication date: | 11/03/2015 |
| Series: | Jacob Lev Series , #2 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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