The Dutch

#12 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series. When a young woman's broken body is found 150 feet below the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge in downtown Cleveland, it looks like suicide. But the grieving father doesn't think so and hires Milan to investigate. The search for the truth leads Milan to a sinister web of lies and sordid behavior--and the most brutal and heinous crime he¿s ever faced.

Les Roberts is the author of 13 mystery novels featuring Cleveland detective Milan Jacovich, as well as 9 other books of fiction. The past president of both the Private Eye Writers of America and the American Crime Writer's League, he came to mystery writing after a 24-year career in Hollywood. He was the first producer and head writer of the Hollywood Squares and wrote for the Andy Griffith Show, the Jackie Gleason Show, and the Man from U.N.C.L.E., among others. He has been a professional actor, a singer, a jazz musician, and a teacher. In 2003 he received the Sherwood Anderson Literary Award. A native of Chicago, he currently lives in his adopted home town of Cleveland Heights, Ohio.