A Murder is Forever

by Rob Bates

Overview

Max Rosen always said the diamond business isn’t about sorting the gems, it’s about sorting the people. His daughter Mimi is about to learn that some people, like some diamonds, can be seriously flawed.

After Mimi’s diamond-dealer cousin Yosef is murdered—seemingly for his $4 million pink diamond—Mimi finds herself in the middle of a massive conspiracy, where she doesn’t know who to trust, or what to believe. Now she must find out the truth about both the diamond and her cousin, before whoever killed Yosef, gets her.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781603812214
Publisher:	Epicenter Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/13/2020
Series:	Diamond District Mystery Series , #1
Pages:	216
Sales rank:	991,312
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Rob Bates has written about the diamond industry for over 25 years. He is currently the news director of JCK, the leading publication in the jewelry industry, which just celebrated its 150th anniversary. He has won 12 editorial awards, and been quoted as an industry authority in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and on National Public Radio. He is also a comedy writer and performer, whose work has appeared on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update segment, comedycentral.com, and Mcsweeneys He has also written for Time Out New York, New York Newsday, and Fastcompany.com. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and son.

Editorial Reviews

10/26/2020

Bates’s sprightly debut and series launch introduces plucky 38-year-old New Yorker Mimi Rosen, who has been working for two months at her father’s diamond business on 47th Street, “the world’s sparkliest flea market.” For onetime reporter Mimi, this new occupation is a major comedown, but being unemployed and broke after an expensive divorce, she had no choice. Then Mimi’s cousin Yosef, a diamond trader, is murdered. The police quickly conclude it was a robbery, an occupational hazard for diamond dealers. But Yosef’s fiancée isn’t convinced, and she begs Mimi to use her experience as a reporter to investigate his death. Bates, who has more than 25 years as a journalist covering the diamond business, easily slips in loads of fascinating information on diamonds and Jewish culture without losing sight of the mystery plot. Readers will look forward to Mimi’s further adventures. Agent: Dawn Dowdle, Blue Ridge Literary. (Oct.)

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