Siren of the Waters: A Jana Matinova Investigation
β Scribed by Genelin, Michael
- Book ID
- 106807753
- Tongue
- und
- Weight
- 177 KB
- Series
- Jana Matinova 1
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
EDITORIAL REVIEW: βThe novel's dramatic ending portends many new developments. . . . Slovakia [is] viable territory for intriguing crime stories.ββNewsday βJana Matinova is an attractive character. She is a passionate young wife, a devoted mother, an intelligent and hardworking police officer, and a person whose years of seeing the worst of her society have not undermined her ability to hope and care. Genelin has allowed his readers to understand an area of the world hidden from Western eyes for a long time.ββThe Oregonian Jana entered the Czechoslovak police force as young woman, married an actor, and became a mother. The Communist regime destroyed her husband, their love for one another, and her daughterβs respect for her. But she has never stopped being a seeker of justice. Now, she has risen to the rank of commander in the Slovak police force and is based in the capital, Bratislava, a crossroads of central Europe. She liaises with colleagues across the continent to track a master criminal whose crimes include extortion, murder, kidnapping, and the operation of a vast human trafficking network. This investigation takes her from Kiev in Ukraine to the headquarters of the European Community in Strasbourg, France; from Vienna to Nice during the Carnival, as she searches for a ruthless killer and the beautiful young Russian woman he is determined to either capture or destroy.
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### From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In Genelin's superb third novel featuring Slovakian police commander Jana Matinova (after 2009's Dark Dreams), a late-night call plunges Matinova into an unusual murder case. A professional hit man has gunned down university student Denis Macek, who sneake
SUMMARY: Praise for Michael Genelin: βThe resourceful and prodigiously insightful Jana seems to have no flaws. But it isn't her feats of superheroism that give the story its chilly sense of reality; itβs her casual acceptance of the almost universal corruption of everyone who lives in her world.ββ