Loose Ends

This is a novel of love, lust, crime and passion. Sasha Perlov is a man of conflict. Striving to secure the beach communities of New York City destroyed by Storm Sandy and haunted by the world he left behind in Russia. As a NYPD detective, he finds himself driven by passion for a woman whose husband has been found dead on the living room floor. It is Sasha's duty to find out who is responsible for his death. As a modern Inspector Javert, Sasha never gives up a case; he hates loose ends. The son of a Jewish dissident and the grandson of the Hero of the Battle of Stalingrad his family's tortured past never leaves him. The tangled web of history follows him to America--the New Jerusalem. Sasha's life is controlled by the contradictions that never leave him.

Anastasia Goodman is Russian-born, leaving the Soviet Union as a toddler to resettle along New York City’s beach communities. She loves her adopted country but remains tied to her former life in Russia returning occasionally to witness the enormous changes that have occurred.