Dialogues of a Crime A Novel

NAMED TO "KIRKUS REVIEWS'" BEST BOOKS OF 2013 Ranked #20, Amazon Best Sellers, 14 October 2014 "1972." The Chicago Mob stands unchallenged, and college students with drugs provide fodder for political point-making. Michael Pollitz, a nineteen-year-old with connections to the Outfit, becomes one of those political pawns. "1994." Job-weary CPD Detective Larry Klinger becomes obsessed with a cold case from that pivotal moment twenty-two years ago. In the course of his investigation, he encounters questions of ethics, guilt, and justice that make him doubt certainties that have sustained him for decades. "Dialogues of a Crime" examines guilt, innocence and the long-term ramifications of crime and punishment in a gray area where the personal lives of perpetrators, victims and law officers overlap.