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Nothing but the Truth (Joshua Rabb Novels)
Nothing but the Truth - Joshua Rabb Novels Author:Richard Parrish Parrish's Joshua Rabb mystery series continues to sizzle and satisfy in its third volume. The setting is Tucson during the late 1940s, and attorney Rabb is a Jewish war veteran with an aluminum arm, six remaining toes, and uncompromisable ethics. He works for the Bureau of Indian Affairs but also finds plenty of work and trouble as a public defe... more »nder. The Arizona-Mexico desert is a violent, hardscrabble place where greed and prejudice lead to all sorts of criminal acts and a Yankee Jew sticks out like the proverbial sore thumb among the gringos, Papago Indians, and Mexican Americans. This particular investigative adventure involves murder, double-dealing, and heroin smuggling and begins with that all too familiar story about Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, and their feud with the Mafia, but Parrish quickly veers off in a wholly fresh and suspenseful direction when he has Rabb's 15-year-old daughter befriend Lansky's son. Parrish excels at gleefully vulgar banter, easy romance, and compelling scenes of confrontation in and out of the courtroom, and Rabb is an endearing and versatile hero. (Booklist)« less