After a poor college student and her lover are murdered, Jana Matinova struggles to find a connection in the brutality with the help of a retired magician who is also invested in the case.
Jana entered the Czechoslovak police force as a young woman, married an actor, and became a mother. The Communist regime destroyed her husband, their love for one another, and her daughter's respect
“Readers hungry for a fresh crime setting will be enormously satisfied with Michael Genelin’s Jana Matinova novels based in Bratislava, Slovakia, a place relatively unknown to West
An indigent student has been shot and killed in an upscale hotel in the center of Bratislava. It appears to be a professional assassination, but who would want to kill a starving student? After examin
When the wife of one of Slovakia's most prominent businessmen is killed in a very public assassination, it looks like the bullets were meant for her husband. But could the wife of Oto Bogan have actua
When the wife of one of Slovakia's most prominent businessmen is killed in a very public assassination, it looks like the bullets were meant for her husband. But could the wife of Oto Bogan have actua
Jana and Sofia were best friends as schoolmates in communist Czechoslovakia. Jana, a judge's daughter, was prudent; Sofia, impetuous. Now Jana, who entered the Czechoslovak police force, has risen to
After a car crash in which six women and a man are killed, Slovakian police commander Jana Matinova discovers that the accident provides evidence of human trafficking and begins a hunt through central
When the wife of one of Slovakia's most prominent businessmen is killed in a public assassination, it looks like the bullets were meant for her husband. But could the wife of Oto Bogan have actually b
