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Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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THE GOLEM OF HOLLYWOOD

The Golem of Hollywood, September 2014
by Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman

Putnam
Featuring: Detective Jacob Lev
552 pages
ISBN: 0399162364
EAN: 9780399162367
Kindle: B00KRPQ2L4
Hardcover / e-Book
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"Police officer Jacob Lev must find a killer before it gets away."

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THE GOLEM OF HOLLYWOOD
Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman

Reviewed by Shellie Surles
Posted November 29, 2014

Mystery Police Procedural

Jacob Lev is a burnt out homicide cop who requested a transfer and got it. As he enjoys the boredom of writing reports for traffic he drinks way too much, has completely lost his faith and feels himself falling into depression.

After a night of way too much drinking he wakes up with a absolutely beautiful woman he can't remember. Moments after she leaves a couple of police officers come for Jacob and take him to a very strange crime scene. They claim to be with special services and insist that he work for them and solve the case. Not left with a choice Jacob begins to investigate the case and things quickly get very strange.

As you read the progress of this very strange case there is a parallel story that runs alongside it, the historical fiction of Adam, Eve, Cain, Able and Asham. It is fascinating to read these two stories and watch as they become one. I always love historical fiction, reading past events from the first person perspective of an author.

You can't help but be drawn into the process of the two stories becoming one. Jacob has struggled with his faith for years and watching him as he faces things he has refused to believe is intriguing. Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman have created an interesting and unique story with THE GOLEM OF HOLLYWOOD.

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SUMMARY

A burned-out L.A. detective . . . a woman of mystery who is far more than she seems . . . a grotesque, ancient monster bent on a mission of retribution. When these three collide, a new standard of suspense is born. The legend of the Golem of Prague has endured through the ages, a creature fashioned by a sixteenth-century rabbi to protect his congregation, now lying dormant in the garret of a synagogue. But the Golem is dormant no longer. Detective Jacob Lev wakes one morning, dazed and confused: He seems to have picked up a beautiful woman in a bar the night before, but he can’t remember anything about the encounter, and before he knows it, she has gone. But this mystery pales in comparison to the one he’s about to be called on to solve. Newly reassigned to a Special Projects squad he didn’t even know existed, he’s sent to a murder scene far up in the hills of Hollywood Division. There is no body, only an unidentified head lying on the floor of a house. Seared into a kitchen counter nearby is a single word: the Hebrew for justice. Detective Lev is about to embark on an odysseyβ€”through Los Angeles, through many parts of the United States, through London and Prague, but most of all, through himself. All that he has believed to be true will be upendedβ€”and not only his world, but the world itself, will be changed.

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