A young Brooklyn assistant district attorney, Carmen Rodriguez, is called to investigate the murder of a Hasidic Jew. The Shomrim, the Hasidic community patrol, apprehended a suspect, Ramon Perez, a few minutes after the murder.
During the course of her investigation, Carmen learns that one of three eyewitnesses to the crime, Moshe Herz, is mentally unstable and may have a crack problem. Moshe's landlady tells Carmen that Moshe has a dybbuk.
Tightly plotted, suspenseful, and funny, "Twelve Wounds" provides a sobering insight into what sometimes passes for criminal justice in New York...
A young Brooklyn assistant district attorney, Carmen Rodriguez, is called to investigate the murder of a Hasidic Jew. The Shomrim, the Hasidic communi...
This book examines the development of democracy in Turkey over recent years and charts the institutional, social, and economic components to this process.
This book examines the development of democracy in Turkey over recent years and charts the institutional, social, and economic components to this p...