Siren Of The Waters

The novels dramatic ending portends many new developments. . . . Slovakiais viable territory for intriguing crime stories.Newsday Jana Matinovais an attractive ... » 

The novels dramatic ending portends many new developments. . . . Slovakiais viable territory for intriguing crime stories.Newsday Jana Matinovais an attractive character. She is a passionate young wife a devoted motheran intelligent and hardworking police officer and a person whose years ofseeing the worst of her society have not undermined her ability to hope andcare. Genelin has allowed his readers to understand an area of the world hiddenfrom Western eyes for a long time.The Oregonian Jana entered theCzechoslovak police force as young woman married an actor and became amother. The Communist regime destroyed her husband their love for one anotherand her daughters respect for her. But she has never stopped being a seeker ofjustice. Now she has risen to the rank of commander in the Slovak policeforce and is based in the capital Bratislava a crossroads of central Europe.She liaises with colleagues across the continent to track a master criminalwhose crimes include extortion murder kidnapping and the operation of a vasthuman trafficking network. This investigation takes her from Kiev in Ukraineto the headquarters of the European Community in Strasbourg France fromVienna to Nice during the Carnival as she searches for a ruthless killer andthe beautiful young Russian woman he is determined to either capture ordestroy. «