The Cleveland Local: A Milan Jacovich Mystery (Milan Jacovich Mysteries) | Les Roberts

The Cleveland Local: A Milan Jacovich Mystery (Milan Jacovich Mysteries) | Les Roberts | A hard-hitting, plot-twisting saga

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	The Cleveland Local: A Milan Jacovich Mystery (Milan Jacovich Mysteries) Les Roberts Gray & Company Publishers, 2005 - 268 pages average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Milan Jacovich wades through the muck of Cleveland mob bosses and labor leaders to get to the bottom of a young attorney's death. Cleveland Local is the eighth Milan Jacovich mystery by Les Roberts, formerly a Hollywood television producer.

A SHOCK ENDING THAT WILL HAUNT YOU FOR A LONG TIME

THE CLEVELAND LOCAL is perhaps the "darkest" of Les Roberts' novels about Cleveland private eye Milan Jacovich. It's about families - that of a young man shot down on a secluded Caribbean beach, of a Holocaust survivor who guards her daughter with Draconian intensity, of Jacovich's own family, the "family" of blue-collar union workers who band together in search of a better life, and the all-important extended family of friendships and loyalties.

The city of Cleveland, with its working-class milieu and its stately mansions and sweeping lawns, comes so vibrantly alive that it's almost one of the characters.

Much has been said of the shocking ending. It is unexpected, sad, and completely unforgettable. Only a writer with Les Roberts' craft, control and confidence could have carried it off. He's at the top of his form here.

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A hard-hitting, plot-twisting saga

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 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.

If you've never read the series, read them in order

I've had the misfortune of reading this series out of order. Being orginally from Cleveland myself (like everyone else in NC), I truely enjoyed the local color and detail that Mr. Roberts puts in his novels. When a character in a novel eats at a restaurant that you've been to, lives in a building you can identify by sight, it makes the fiction more believable. Les Robert's mysteries are good. They're believable and not over the top. Milan Jackovich is human, and someone you'd like to know.

However, if you have the option, start from the beginning. Something very important to the series happens in this novel. It's sudden, and at the end, and having had forknowledge of it from reading later books in the series diminished the impact for me.

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The Slovenian PI is one tough dude

Being a native Clevelander, I really appreciate the references to my hometown. I love the character development, he makes you feel as if you know the characters! The plot was convoluted, it kept you guessing. The ending was unexpected.

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