Return To Sender: An Alex Glauberman Mystery (The Alex

Return To Sender: An Alex Glauberman Mystery (The Alex Glauberman Series Book 1)

This is the FIRST book in the critically acclaimed Alex Glauberman series.

â‚¬Å“â‚¬Â¦a writer to watch.â‚¬Â -Publisherâ‚¬s Weekly

â‚¬Å“â‚¬Â¦raises the mystery to the realm of literature.â‚¬Â â‚¬â€œTony Hillerman

HE WENT TO THE POST OFFICEâ‚¬Â¦AND ENDED UP IN BERLIN

Meet reluctant detective Alex Glaubermanâ‚¬"just a guy who fixes foreign cars, a 41-year-old divorced father with a brilliant British girl friend. But heâ‚¬s got a complication right nowâ‚¬"heâ‚¬s trying to survive chemo. And then Gerald Meyer, a stranger he meets at the P.O., asks him to mail a package to Meyerâ‚¬s daughter. Easily done, but too late, Meyer changes his mind.

And turns up dead.

But now the package is gone, and clearly dangerous! Will Meyerâ‚¬s daughter be the next victim? Worse, is Alex about to be arrested for murder? Out of those fears is born Alexâ‚¬s career as an international detectiveâ‚¬"because the strangerâ‚¬s daughter lives in Berlin, and he doesnâ‚¬t know how to contact her.

Too intrigued to let it go (and also because heâ‚¬s a mensch) Alex sets off on an adventure that takes him to London and Berlin in the last years of the Wall, in a search for package, perpetrators, and to prove his own innocence.

Along the way heâ‚¬s plunged into the wreckage of Gerald Meyerâ‚¬s life, a wake that includes the daughter, half-German and half-Jewish, as well as an underworld network, unusual banking transactions, blackmail, shadowy neo-Nazis, and a city in which, as Meyerâ‚¬s daughter puts it, â‚¬Å“Under all the showy stuff, Berliners are frightened of so many things.â‚¬Â Police detectives in two countries donâ‚¬t make it any easier, but Alex learns to cope, trading bits of information while explaining his actions with metaphors such as the Yiddish meaning of his family name.

Great scenes in Berlin make this a must-read for fans of international mysteries and thrillers, and World War II buffs will appreciate the historical aspects. Fans of Jewish detectives like Rabbi Small, Jake Samson, Rebecca Schwartz, Peter Decker, and Rina Lazarus will find themselves adding another series to their favorites. But itâ‚¬s a great P.I. story for all mystery fans, in the vein of vintage male sleuths who are neither cozy nor hard-boiledâ‚¬"just regular detective guys, like Ellery Queen, Father Brown, Gideon Oliver, Charles Paris, and Tubby Dubonnet.
Country USA
Manufacturer booksbnimble
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-04-25
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	booksbnimble
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-04-25
Format	Kindle eBook

Return To Sender: An Alex Glauberman Mystery (The Alex Glauberman Series Book 1)

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