Detective Jacob Lev Novel The Golem of Hollywood, Book 1, (Paperback)

from madamepince

What is this book? Is it a Mystery? Fantasy? Horror? Gothic? Family drama? What? Normally, I don't have a problem with books that cross genres, but I'd like to think the author(s) know. Trouble is, I think the Kellermans do know what they're writing, but they forgot to include some of it. Stephen...

from she_climber

I'd won this book as an ER book, but never received it from the publisher. So when I saw it in the library I went ahead and picked it up. I read 160 of the books 550 pages before I moved on to something more interesting. This book just never seemed to be going anywhere. In this time we had no clu...

from muddyboy

Two things in my opinion distract from this grisly novel that could have been titled The Mystery of the Decapitated Heads. First, it is well over 500 pages and I really didn't think the plot warranted that kind of verbiage. Secondly, there are a series of historical side stories between some of t...

from rescueme

Main character Jacob Lev is mysteriously assigned to a police unit called Special Projects that seems just as mysterious as the details of Jacob's assignment. I absolutely enjoyed the masterful writing in this book, but the double story was too much of a distraction. The switch between story line...

from phoenixcomet

I would so have appreciated this story more if I had more of a background in Jewish mysticism. Detective and alcoholic Jacob Lev is put on a case of finding out who left a head (no body) and the Jewish symbol for justice on the counter. The tale entwines the biblical stories of Cain and Abel, the...