Kirjahaku

Leo Tolstoy's tragic play of moral disintegration that ultimately leads a man to impregnate his stepdaughter and murder the baby.

Anton Chekhov's play of love, frustration, and imploding lives in Czarist Russia.

Chicago detective Joe Erickson returns to the force following medical leave, and right away a high-profile murder falls in his lap. The body of a graduate student, the son of a prominent Jewish attorney, washes up on the shore of Lake Michigan with a swastika cut into his back. The hate-crime investigation leads Joe and his partner to suspect neo-Nazis, and as he digs deeper into the young man's death, he uncovers a conspiracy that nearly gets him killed.

Death hits close to home in One of Ours when Chicago detective Joe Erickson is called to the scene of a fatal shooting. The victim, a police captain Joe knows well, had been working on his own time to solve a cold case before he retired. Determining he was silenced for getting too close to the truth, Joe picks up the trail and finds it teeming with corruption, executions, and a conspiracy involving a powerful city official. Can Joe crack the cold case and solve the murder while avoiding the wrath of the conspirators?

Detective Joe Erickson is called to investigate a burned-out pickup truck containing the charred bodies of two individuals. The truck's license plate helps identify the victims as a young man and his cousin, who were living in a house owned by the man's father. But when a suspicious area in the backyard is excavated, and skeletal remains are found, the case grows increasingly complicated. Who would burn the two victims beyond recognition? And could the skeletal remains have anything to do with it?

The last thing homicide detective Joe Erickson needs is to get involved in murder investigation. On a medical leave from Chicago PD after developing acute stress disorder, he has returned to his hometown in Iowa to settle his father's estate.But when he learns two teenage girls in neighboring towns have been abducted, murdered, and found posed nude along a riverbank, he takes notice. And when his former lover and criminal profiler is brought in to consult, she talks him into joining the investigation.Known for employing unorthodox methods, Joe throws himself headlong into a case that will test his mental stamina. But when his neighbor's daughter is abducted, his razor-sharp intuition and keen investigative skills kick into high gear as he races against time to find her before she becomes the killer's third victim.