The Cleveland Local: A Milan Jacovich Mystery (Milan Jacovich Mysteries)

#8 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . .

Hotshot young Cleveland lawyer Joel Kerner is shotgunned to death on a lonely beach on the Caribbean island of San Carlos. The local police are inept, and the Cleveland cops can t operate outside their jurisdiction, so Kerner s sister Patrice comes to private eye Milan Jacovich (it s pronounced MY-lan YOCK-ovich) to discover the truth about her brother s murder.

Milan flies to San Carlos to investigate a pleasant three-day working vacation that doesn t keep him from getting stabbed in an alley and rousted by a high-level international cop.

Back in Cleveland, he asks his best friend, homicide lieutenant Marko Meglich, for some unofficial help. But he runs up against Kerner s angry father, a world-famous labor attorney, along with the bevy of beautiful women Joel Kerner left behind and a powerful union leader known around town as The Irish.

Milan marches forward to solve the case, though it will eventually cause him a tragic and insupportable personal loss.