Forgiving Mariela Camacho
A.J. Sidransky
Berwick Court, Sep 30 2015, $16.95
ISBN 9780990951568
In 2010, while waiting for his nine-month pregnant wife Karin’s
call that the time is now, NYPD Detective Tolya Kurchenko and his partner Pete
Gonzalvez head to a luxurious apartment building in Washington Heights where
the super called in a concern. The two
cops break down the apartment door of a single woman. The overwhelming smell leads them to a
female’s posed corpse. Pete collapses
when he recognizes the victim, as Mariela Camacho who remains the love of his
life though he married someone else.
In spite of a suicide note and the medical examiner’s contention;
Pete adamantly insists Mariela would never slice her throat; other evidence
surfaces that supports his assertion. Grieving
Pete thinks back to the Dominican Republic when he was a teen whose parents
died. Tio Polito took Pete in and raised him along with Mariela and two other
girls. However Pete also knows Polito’s
business interests are deadly illegal, but when he and Tolya find evidence of
an international serial killer both fear for Karin as the Jewish Heritage
Museum chief curator seems lost likely next.
A. J. Sidransky refreshes his overarching Forgiving Maximo Rothman
premise of connecting a current Washington Heights police investigation with Judaism
thriving and welcomed in the 1940s Dominican Republic compared with ugly suppression
by Soviet Russia. The main characters
are three-dimensional and the rotating subplots superb. We fans will never forgive Mr. Sidransky if
he fails to bring back Kurchenko and Gonzalvez for a third Upper Manhattan
investigation.
Harriet Klausner
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