1946, the first post-World War II year, finds Tribune police reporter Snap Malek hip deep in a murder case. Someone has stabbed his cousin’s British war bride to death in their Bohemian neighborhood home in Pilsen. As the prime suspect, the meek...
In the shadowy metropolis that is 1938 Chicago, Steve Malek is a Tribune police reporter in a city gripped by the Kelly-Nash political machine and the post-Capone crime syndicate. In Malek’s depression-era world, the Tribune is the largest of the...
Autumn 1948 — the final tense days of the Presidential campaign between incumbent Harry S Truman and Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey. As Truman prepares for a visit to Chicago, Tribune police reporter Steve “Snap” Malek is warned of a...
Against the ominous backdrop of America’s entry into World War II, the navy still reels from the devastation wreaked at Pearl Harbor and the crushing defeat of US ground troops in the Philippines.
On the home front, scientists at the...
Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he’s old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the worst...
It’s the summer of 1949 and Steve “Snap” Malek has been assigned by his editors to cover the Chicago Railroad Fair. For three months this sprawling and lavish event will draw visitors to the showcase on the city’s beautiful Lakefront. Malek,...
A Messerschmitt 109 aircraft crashes on a remote Scottish mountainside and a lone parachutist descends. On landing, he demands to see the Duke of Hamilton, whose castle is nearby. It is 1941, and a bizarre mission, one so sensitive that its full...
A murder on the high seas. A remarkable detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist.
It's 1634, and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he may, or may not, have...
He knows who did the killing. Now he needs to figure out why.
Israel, 1952 – Private detective Adam Lapid tries to do the right thing. He may end up in prison because of it.
To stay free, Adam must work for a man he hates. The case is...
The boy was murdered in Auschwitz. The killer isn't a Nazi.
Poland, 1944: Adam Lapid used to be a police detective. Now he's a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.
Reduced to a slave after losing his family in the gas chambers, Adam struggles to...