New Releases by Stuart M. Kaminsky

Edgar Award–Winning Author: A downhearted detective deals with missing persons and murder in the “psychologically acute and fast-moving crime series” (Booklist). Lew Fonesca is a guy just trying to get along. When his wife died in a senseless auto wreck, he got up and left his old life—and when his car gave out in sunny Sarasota, Florida, he stayed. He takes small process-serving gigs and various odd jobs helping people out, and he tries, although maybe not as hard as he should, to fix the gaping hole in his heart. But for a man who just wants to ease through life without any complications, Lew has a pretty full plate. The shrink he’s been seeing for over a year wants him to finally dump all the grief he’s carrying around so he can have more than a half-life. And Sally, the pretty single mom and social worker who’s helped Lew in the past, wants to deepen their friendship. On top of that, a local minister asks him to find a town council member who’s gone missing just before a crucial vote that could ruin a struggling community, and a distraught father comes to Lew to track down his wife and two kids, who Lew suspects ran off with the man’s best friend. When people start showing up dead, Lew knows he’s in way over his head—and this time he may not be able make it all come out okay. . . . “There are three things we’ve come to expect from a Kaminsky story: superb plotting, real-world dialogue and character development. He doesn’t place a foot wrong in any of these departments in Midnight Pass.” —Sarasota Herald-Tribune “Good dark fun.” —Chicago Tribune

An Abe Lieberman mystery Abe Lieberman is a strong, sympathetic character, an Everyman whose love for his family is only matched by his quiet, zealous commitment to justice. "A figure out of Talmudic lore-endearing, wise in his crotchets, weary with his wisdom," says The Washington Post. He loves what he does, but it takes its toll as his commitment to what is right is sorely tested every day on the mean streets of Chicago. As a moral man, he is sometimes faced with some uncomfortable ethical choices in order to see that justice-rather than the letter of the law-is meted out. And in Not Quite Kosher, the latest Abe Lieberman mystery by veteran Edgar Award-winning Stuart Kaminsky, our hangdog sleuth is up to his eyeballs in tsurris, the kind of trouble that will drive a man to madness. From tracking a pair of low-rent thieves who stumble into a heist way over their heads to finding out what happened to a man who predicted his own death in a bizarre twist of fate, not to mention planning for a grandson''s bar mitzvah that threatens to send him to the poorhouse, Lieberman will do much to find a way to make everything right, even if it takes years off his life. And his Irish partner, Bill Hanrahn, the Priest to Lieberman''s Rabbi, is in trouble of his own making. For the woman he loves is the object of affection of one of the kingpins of the Asian crime syndicate in Chicago and the notion of this woman marrying anyone from a different culture is anathema. How far will he go to win the woman he loves? And at what cost? Just another day in the lives of a pair of Chicago''s most amiably odd detective team . . . At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Tobias Leo Pevsner, alias Toby Peters, détective privé à Hollywood, est contacté par Charlie Chaplin en personne. Ce dernier a reçu des menaces de la part d''un individu armé. Pour farfelues qu''elles paraissent, elles sont prises au sérieux par l''acteur qui, en ces années de guerre, compte plus d''ennemis que d''amis en Amérique. Avec l''aide de quelques alliés incongrus mais fidèles, Toby finira par confondre un criminel particulièrement manipulateur. En dépit de la noirceur d''une époque marquée par les restrictions et la chasse aux communistes, Kaminsky impose une irrésistible tonalité burlesque à cette histoire où il nous livre une version apocryphe des origines de Monsieur Verdoux.

Private eye Jim Rockford receives a visit from a girl claiming to be his daughter and she has proof. The girl says her mother, the woman with whom Rockford had an affair, is missing and may have been murdered by her husband. Rockford investigates.

Moscow''s top cops are on the case as multiple murders sweep the city. There''s Rostnikov, once a hero in the great war against Hitler, recently demoted after clashing with the KGB. There''s young Sasha, who looks more like a kid than a cop. And there''s Karpo, intelligent and determined, feared by criminals. Together, they would track down the killers -- but what if their search led into forbidden areas, into the Kremlin itself?

Abe Lieberman and his Irish partner, Bill Hanrahan, investigate the kidnapping of a government witness supposedly shielded under the federal witness protection program.

Kaminsky''s series character Toby Peters appears with John Wayne in The Man Who Shot Lewis Valance and D.W. Griffith in Busted Blossoms. Hidden finds a determined detective searching for the truth when a teenage boy is suspected of savagely killing his family. In Drop Number One, who can tell who is crazy and who is not when three men break out of an insane asylum?

Grâce à Stuart Kaminsky la nostalgie n''a pas changé. C''est avec un plaisir chaque fois renouvelé que l''on retrouve au fil des aventures de Toby Peters, l''ex-flic au grand cœur tourné enquêteur privé pour cause d''indépendance d''esprit, le Hollywood de la grande époque et ses monstres sacrés en proie à quelques difficultés passagères intimes ou publiques. Après Errol Flynn, Mae West, Bette Davis et Gary Cooper - entre autres -, c''est au secours des Marx Brothers que notre intrépide héros au dos cassé va se porter cette fois-ci.

Chicago n''accorde décidément pas de repos à Abe Lieberman, flic de 60 ans aux méthodes bien singulières. Alors qu''il prend la place de commerçants coréens pour faire échouer des opérations de racket, le Temple de Mir Shavot, dont sa femme est présidente, est saccagé et la Torah de velours bleu dérobée. Skinheads, terroristes arabes ? Les pistes sont nombreuses et Lieberman va devoir infiltrer ces différents groupes grâce à ses indics et à son associé Haranan. Les choses se compliquent quand trois étudiants arabes sont sauvagement assassinés et que la famille de Lieberman est menacée par les racketteurs coréens... Une intrigue passionnante qui nous plonge dans un Chicago cosmopolite avec ses haines et ses conflits d''intérêts.

Jim Rockford finds himself entangled in a dangerous mess when a seventeen-year-old girl claiming to be his daughter shows up on his doorstep and asks for his help in discovering what has happened to her mother, who she thinks may have been killed by her s

Lors de la réunion de service présidée par Chien-Loup - plus connu en tant que colonel Snitkovoy - l''inspecteur en chef Rostnikov annonce l''ouverture de quatre nouvelles enquêtes. Un enlèvement, le meurtre d''un ivrogne, une fusillade de rue et une saisie d''objets d''art. Autant d''occasions pour Craig Hamilton, agent du FBI en stage au Bureau des Enquêtes Spéciales, de s''initier aux méthodes d''investigation de la police russe. Mais aussi de se frotter à la Russie d''aujourd''hui, où la loi n''a plus guère de valeur et où chacun essaie de survivre à sa manière, à coups de pots-de-vin, de mensonges, de pierres. Si certains y gagnent une aisance matérielle, la plupart y perdent leur intégrité, leurs biens mal acquis... ou leur vie. A l''est, du nouveau pour l''inspecteur-chef Rostnikov, assisté par un ancien adversaire d''hier...

"TERRIFIC . . . EXCEPTIONAL." --Detroit Free Press Crime in post-communist Russia has only gotten worse: rubles are scarce, blood, plentiful. In the eyes of Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and his metropolitan police team, newfound democracy has unleashed the desperation that pushes people over the edge, and a trio of nasty cases confirms their worst fears. Deputy Inspector Sasha Tkach must find the murderous thieves who have terrorized an impoverished neighborhood. Policewoman Elena Timofeyeva joins the tax police in a raid on a house filled with priceless Czarist treasures--which disappear the following day without a trace. And relentless Inspector Emil Karpo will not rest until he finds the Mafia beasts who killed the only woman he has ever loved in a bloody drive-by shooting--and Karpo intends to punish them his way. . . . "Deeply absorbing, full of character nuance and irony . . . Kaminsky''s laconic tone and colorful prose bring [Moscow] and its denizens to life." --The Sunday Herald "Kaminsky excels each time he enters the harshness of post-Cold War Russia." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

" Stuart Kaminsky relance Toby Peters, ce privé qui hante les studios d''Hollywood pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Peters, c''est d''abord un anti-héros toujours fauché mais diablement perspicace, un ex-flic au nez cassé par son grand frère et au dos en compote, obligé de dormir sur une planche de bois et qui se nourrit de céréales, largué par une épouse dont il n''arrive pas à faire le deuil. Un grand gamin qui n''arrivera jamais à devenir adulte et qui erre au milieu d''une bande de solitaires aussi brisés par la vie que sa colonne vertébrale" " Patrice Gagnant, Le Progrès. Traduit de l''américain par Simone Hilling

On a Sunday night in 1942, private eye Toby Peters wakes up in a Los Angeles hotel room with a headache, a corpse on the bed, and John Wayne pointing a pistol between his eyes

In this book, Kaminsky and other scholars use the sophisticated critical tools of contemporary literary and film analysis to examine popular American television genres. Critical approaches ranging from historical to anthropological to structural and psychoanalytic are clearly presented and then used to analyze a variety of shows including soap operas, police dramas, game shows, and news programs. Throughout the book the authors explore the ways in ehich the genres of popular television regularly viewed by millions are significant on a cultural and social level. These explorations reveal that popular television can be understood as a rich and complex art form. This book will provide the student with a detailed introduction to the art of television criticism.