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The Kindness of Strangers

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In the third installment of the Amos Parisman Mysteries series, Amos finds himself on the twisted trail of a dangerous killer as he enters the heart of inequity in his community.

Amos Parisman, L.A.'s oldest and most stubborn Jewish gumshoe, has never learned how to properly retire. He has little to do and his options are narrowing day by day, until he stumbles across the body of a local homeless woman in Park La Brea. Despite the instruction of Amos' comrade, Lieutenant Malloy, who tells him not to get involved, the police find that they could use someone unconventional like Parisman, someone who knows the neighborhood and is willing to go the extra mile. As more homeless people begin turning up dead in the area, though, Amos soon realizes he is hunting a serial killer with a gruesome vendetta against the vulnerable and disadvantaged.

Battling moral and civil questions regarding the invisible class, The Kindness of Strangers is a gripping look into the lives of those who sleep in the dust, the value we place on those who aren't like us, and the damage that homelessness inflicts on the human spirit.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 28, 2022
      The discovery of a homeless woman’s body in a dumpster in Amos Parisman’s neighborhood kick starts Weinberger’s smoothly paced third outing for the elderly Los Angeles PI (after 2020’s Reason to Kill). Three more similar slayings follow. In between are two additional, seemingly unrelated murders. The common denominator? The victims were all connected to the same Rapture-centered church for the forgotten. The book has all the characteristics of traditional noir—harsh urban street life versus cloistered affluence; cheap dives and hangouts; an eclectic mix of eccentric secondary characters—but the empathetic Parisman, a retired detective with a heart, and his LAPD friend investigating the murders, Lt. William Malloy, who’s considering retirement, aren’t the usual noir antiheroes. Parisman and Malloy share and compare values and philosophy, perhaps a little more frequently than necessary. Folded nicely into the dizzying plot is Parisman’s backstory and that of his significant other, Mara Worthington, both of whom have spouses in failing health. Weinberger offers a gentle counterbalance to Walter Mosley’s more hard-knuckled Easy Rawlins series, likewise set in L.A.

    • Library Journal

      March 1, 2022

      Amos Parisman calls himself the "best Jewish detective in LA," but admits at least he's the oldest one. He has few clients, and his wife, who has Alzheimer's, is in a nursing home, so he shows up at a crime scene whenever Lieutenant Bill Malloy calls. Amos doesn't recognize the dead woman in the dumpster, although he's familiar with the neighborhood where she was killed. The woman lived on the street, and the LAPD doesn't seem to care about solving her murder, even after a second person is killed, probably by the same weapon. When a third victim turns up, Amos begins to fear that the killer is targeting LA's unhoused population. He follows connections that lead to a small church and a minister who preaches to people on the street. VERDICT There's a melancholy tone of loss in Weinberger's follow-up to Reason To Kill. The purposeful pace is befitting of the aging Amos as he tackles a case whose victims are largely neglected by society.--Lesa Holstine

      Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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