Final Atonement - Doug Orlando, Bk 1 Author:Steve Johnson New York Police detective Doug Orlando had a few things going against him as he hunted a killer. Blacks didn't trust him because he was white. Jews didn't trust him because he was a goy. Liberals didn't trust him because he was a cop. Fellow cops didn't trust him because he was gay. His partner was a cop who liked to shoot and ki... more »ll and who hated him as a snitch. And one of his suspects, a real estate mogul, had a king sized ego, a direct line to the mayor, and the clout to squash Orlando like a bug.
Rabbi Avraham Rabowitz was found in a pool of his own blood, a prayer shawl stuffed down his throat, and his beard shaved off. The question for Orlando wasn't who hated the right wing religious sect leader -- Rabowitz had been the open enemy of blacks, Hispanics, gays, pro-choice women, even fellow Jews. In a case that moved from the depths of the ghetto to the high-rise office of a glamour-boy real estate tycoon, the suspects came in every color and shade of belief. And unless orlando defused a ticking time bomb of tension by coming up with the killer, the melting pot of the city was going to melt down.« less