Lieberman's Folly

By Stuart M. Kaminsky

A pair of cops hunt the killer of the most beautiful hooker on Chicago's North Side.

On a blistering Chicago afternoon, the Cubs are winning and Abe Lieberman is waiting to meet a prostitute. This mild-mannered old police detective still has a few tricks up his sleeves -- and one of them is named Estralda Valdez. One of the city's loveliest women of the night, she is Lieberman's most prized confidential informant, and she needs help with a psychotic john. Though they suspect she's only paranoid, Lieberman and his partner, Bill Hanrahan, agree to watch Valdez's back. But Hanrahan's weakness for drinking will sabotage their plans.

Hanrahan gets soused watching Valdez's front door, and by the time he realizes she is in danger, it's already too late. To save the partnership and find the hooker's killer, Lieberman and Hanrahan will have to make a journey into the darkest heart of the Windy City.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Release date: Jun 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781784086060

Stuart M. Kaminsky

Stuart M. Kaminsky was the author of more than 60 novels and an Edgar Award winner who was given the coveted Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America. His series include the Lew Fonesca, Inspector Rostnikov, Toby Peters, and Abe Lieberman mysteries, which includes such titles as Terror Town, The Last Dark Place, and Not Quite Kosher. He passed away in the fall of 2009.

Reviews for Lieberman's Folly

[danhammang · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was a refreshing, truly different addition to the crime fiction landscape. Our protagonist is a mensch. He navigates through the tricky shoals with a deft hand and even keel. The characters and scenes quietly evoke the multicultural Chicago at it very best. It's best, that is, if you don't count the underworld that the cops are fighting. It shows people from varied and deeply felt cultural fabrics that find friendship and effective partnership. It was a joy to trot along with Detective Lieberman as he fought the good fight.