The professor’s office is set on fire by some radical group activist who later turns out that the wife was a devoted member. He takes an active role in the case while risking his life to make things happen and uncover the truth.Įven though it may seem like the story has some clues, they are not enough for the reader to fully figure out what happens at the end.Įach character in the book and each of them is slowly revealed as Jake gets close to uncovering the truth and almost gets killed for it.
Jake accepts the case even though he isn’t a PI.
It was at that point that their marriage became more complicated. His wife also happens to have been involved with the group of people running after him.Įarlier, She was a known artist on the East Coast before relocating and giving up her art because of her husband, and later she secretly picked up her artwork again. Additionally, he’s been cheating on her for many years. The police had already picked the normal leads, including dirty politics, an estate worth killing for and jealousy to charge the professor. The professor is the prime suspect since he’s the husband. The professor wants to find out who killed his wife as she was found dead and her body hidden at the bottom of the steep rocky hill on their deck.Īt first, it was thought to be suicide and but later treated as a homicide. The client is a professor from Berkeley who is currently a target by a radical group. One day Jake receives a phone call from a friend requesting him to help someone clear his name for the murder of his wife. Jake lives in Berkeley and rents a little house in his home to Rosie, a lesbian carpenter who later becomes his sidekick. He was tired of the rat race In his job, so he goes back to California to live with his cats
Earlier, when he was a cop, he fought some people at the Democratic Convention in 1968, then resigned from the job where he later moved to Northern California in the East Bay. Jake’s an ex-Chicago cop though he doesn’t admit it. The savings can sustain him for quite sometime.Additionally, he’s a laid back kind of a guy, and he likes lying out on his patio to pass time. Jake is a guy with enough savings, so he doesn’t have to work so hard to make ends meet, though he’s forced sometimes. Samson’s Deal is the first installment in the Jake Samson series. Singer is a teacher of fiction writing classes, and she is also a manuscript consultant. In her journalism career, she met people like Xavier Cugat, Martin Luther King Jr, Mrs. She began working as a reporter with UPI in Chicago. One of her mysteries was nominated for the prestigious Shamus Award of the Private Eye Writers of America. Shelley Singer is an American mystery author with many published novels and short stories.
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