The Rule of Two
A prosecutor is accused of murdering his boss, and the case looks airtight. Zev would rather avoid the job, but a nest of suspects waits behind the obvious answer.
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Zev Maslo Mysteries
Private detective Zev Maslo would rather be reading or playing the piano. The murders keep arriving anyway, and the clues rarely do.
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The Rest is Silence
When a retired prosecutor is murdered and the police are unable to find any evidence pointing to the killer, the victim's friends hire Zev Maslo to investigate. Everything Zev and Hannah learn seems to show that the victim was universally popular and that no motive to kill him existed, but Zev suspects that there's much more to the murder than meets the eye.
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The Zev Maslo cases
Each case gives Zev and Hannah Raphael a problem that should be simple, until the evidence disappears, the motives multiply, and the wrong person looks impossible to save.
Fatal Reunion
Hannah expects a routine reunion. A famous classmate is murdered instead, leaving Zev with too many suspects, too many motives, and almost nothing to prove.
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E Pluribus Murder
A notorious fashion designer is killed days before trial. His sister points to rivals and victims, but Zev has to work a case rich in motive and starved of proof.
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Going Under
A death ruled accidental may have been murder. Hannah gets close to the suspect, but new bodies begin to fall, and the next one could be hers.
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A Hunk of Jade
Zev and Hannah take on an impossible favor for a client who cannot pay. Then murder intervenes, and their client is found with fingerprints on the weapon.
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Meet Zev Maslo
Brilliant, exacting, and not especially eager to be dragged into another mess, Zev Maslo solves cases by noticing what everyone else explains away. Hannah Raphael, his assistant and partner in the work, is often the one who gets close enough to hear the lie before Zev proves it.
A reluctant detective. A fearless assistant. Cases that refuse to leave evidence behind.
