Siren of the Waters (A Jana Matinova Investigation)
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (555 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004HYHBA2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 543 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Now, she has risen to the rank of commander in the Slovak police force and is based in the capital, Bratislava, a crossroads of central Europe. She liaises with colleagues across the continent to track a master criminal whose crimes include extortion, murder, kidnapping, and the operation of a vast human trafficking network. This investigation takes her from Kiev in Ukraine to the headquarters of the European Community in Strasbourg, France; from Vienna to Nice during the Carnival, as she searches for a ruthless killer and the beautiful young Russian woman he is determined to either capture or destroy.From the Trade Paperback edition.. Jana entered the Czechoslovak police force as young woman, married an actor
Michael Genelin is a writer, lawyer, and international consultant in government reform. . He is also author of four highly acclaimed Jana Matinova novels, REQUIEM FOR A GYPSY, THE MAGICIAN'S ACCOMPLICE, DARK DREAMS, and SIREN OF THE WATERS, with a fifth in the series, FOR THE DIGNIFIED DEAD, about to be released. A graduate of UCLA Law School, he has served as a consultant for the US State
her much loved husband became more erratic Amazon Customer Having had the opportunity to read the fifth in this series a while ago I've been champing at the bit to go back to the start - SIREN OF THE WATERS. Sneaking this in amongst a lot of required reading recently was quite a treat, although now I'm wondering when I'll get a chance to read two, three and four now. Hopefully before a lot more of them come out.This series debut starts out with a car crash that has killed seven people, most of whom are prostitutes from Eastern Europe. Quickly the investigation switches to one about human . Joyce said Five Stars. This book lead me to buy sever of the author's books. Very interesting books!. J. Moran said Promising But Has Problems. This is the first in a series featuring Commander Jana Matinova of the Slovak Republic's national police. We first see her on the scene of a possibly suspicious traffic accident. She finds a burning van and seven bodies. The lone male has two passports. Five of the six dead women are foreigners and all are prostitutes.Matinova quickly concludes that the "accident" is murder and that the Slovak Republic is a transit point in the flesh trade in Europe. Her superiors quickly grant the request of the chair of the EU committee dealing
Of the various characters, only Jana and her nemesis, an unknown criminal mastermind, are fully fleshed out; most of the other players are either two-dimensional or stereotypical. Set in Slovakia, Ukraine, and southern France, the novel never really takes advantage of the rich atmosphere of these locales. --Jessica Moyer . Fans of the international crime novel should give the series at least one more chance. From Booklist A slightly below-average first novel by an American lawyer displays some weaknesses in plot and characterization. Commander Jana’s investigation of the deaths of a crashed and burned van of imported prostitutes leads her across Europe. With a heavy reliance on backstory here—Jana’s past in Communist Czechoslovakia—it’s not clear where the author plans to go with this series in future installments, but despite this novel’s problems (a too-pat ending is also troublesome), there is still potential for the s