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Jessie Drake Mysteries #3
Blood Money
Blood Money stars LAPD homicide detective Jessica Drake, whose compelling drive to find out how one man died leads her to a scurrilous scheme to victimize the survivors of history's most monstrous mass killing.
When the unidentified body of an elderly man is found in a wooded area of Los Angeles Rancho Park, it appears that he has succumbed to a heart attack. But Jessie suspects foul play. He was the only person in his family to come out of the concentration camps alive, with a scar on his forearm bearing chilling testimony to the tattooed numbers that once branded him. A man who survived the Holocaust may have lost his life to a murderer - a heartwrenching irony to Jessie, who just recently learned of her own link to the historic atrocity.
In search of the mystery that brought the old gentleman's life to a lonely end, and driven by a personal mission on behalf of the family she never knew, Jessie combs the records of retirement homes and prods the failing memories of the residents. What she uncovers are more mysterious deaths and a twisted plot of treachery and greed that threatens to finish off Hitler's remaining victims, as well as steal their long-denied wealth from the vaults of Swiss banks.
When the unidentified body of an elderly man is found in a wooded area of Los Angeles Rancho Park, it appears that he has succumbed to a heart attack. But Jessie suspects foul play. He was the only person in his family to come out of the concentration camps alive, with a scar on his forearm bearing chilling testimony to the tattooed numbers that once branded him. A man who survived the Holocaust may have lost his life to a murderer - a heartwrenching irony to Jessie, who just recently learned of her own link to the historic atrocity.
In search of the mystery that brought the old gentleman's life to a lonely end, and driven by a personal mission on behalf of the family she never knew, Jessie combs the records of retirement homes and prods the failing memories of the residents. What she uncovers are more mysterious deaths and a twisted plot of treachery and greed that threatens to finish off Hitler's remaining victims, as well as steal their long-denied wealth from the vaults of Swiss banks.
- GenresMystery
341 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1999
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September 14, 2017
Jessie Drake who has just discovered her Jewish heritage, investigates the death of a Holocaust surviver. Ironically, the man was the only one of his family to survive the camps. Mr. Pomerantz was healthy, had friends and led a happy life. Why had he come to Los Angeles from New York? And what got him killed when he got there?
Jessie has a challenging life. She and her ex-husband are cautiously dating. Her mother and she struggle.
Ms. Krich creates fascinating characters that I cannot forget and read to the last page to see how they do.
Jessie has a challenging life. She and her ex-husband are cautiously dating. Her mother and she struggle.
Ms. Krich creates fascinating characters that I cannot forget and read to the last page to see how they do.
December 21, 2021
LAPD Detective Jesse Drake is first on the scene when an elderly man is found dead on the golf course. She had a hard time convincing her superiors that it was even murder and then solving the crime is even more difficult. The clue is the numbers tattooed on the victim's arm. Krich has a wonderful compelling voice and gentle way of educating the reader. She is an Orthodox Jew and has an uncanny understanding of the non-Jew - what is confusing, what should be explained and how to do it. This makes everyone of her mysteries, great stories in their own right, even more interesting.
April 7, 2019
Very very slow and laboured
August 25, 2022
Jessica Drake confronts the Holocaust
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June 28, 2008Fast reading mystery set in Los Angeles area; Det. Jessica Drake (A.K.A.Jessie James) interviews Holocaust servivors to solve mysterious death of elderly male Polish Jew from Brooklyn, NY found dead in Rancho Park. Meet Jessie's parents, sisters, boy friend/ex husband and Hebrew teacher. Share Jessie's experience when she lights Shabbos candles for the first time after learning that her own mother, Frances, is a survivor, not unlike Norman Pomerantz, the deceased.
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