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Robert L. Rodin

Hebrew zealot Judas Iscariot, the man
who is alleged to have betrayed Jesus).
At the time, Laughlin secured the
promise of his men to keep the trea-
sure and how it made its way to the
United States a secret.
But when a U.S. senator, chairman
of a committee investigating the trail
of Nazi plunder through neutral coun-
tries and the Catholic Church, is
found dead, and the official cause of
death is listed as "natural," Sean
knows he is in trouble.
Laughlin, now an ex-CIA director,
is considered a war hero. Few know
the secrets of his past, and those who
do are slowly being eliminated,
including the two members of Sean
Macguire s wartime mission.
Nothing obvious, of course. A sui-
cide here, a hit-and-run there. Sean
Macguire is the last to know the secret
— and someone is determined to
extinguish him.
Robert L. Rodin, an architect who
lives in Hawaii, has written an excit-
ing, up-to-the-minute scenario based
on stories his father, a member of the
OSS, told him.

One of the charms of Blood Money
(Avon Twilight; $23), Krich's latest novel,
is that as the main character learns more
about her Judaism, so do we.
When the corpse of Dr. Norman
Pomerantz is discovered in a Los
Angeles park, LAPD homicide detec-
tive Jessica Drake is called to investi-
gate the circumstances of his death.
She discovers that he is a man with
no relatives, a visitor from New York
about whom little is known at the
old-age home in Los Angeles where
he had been residing — — except
that he is a Holocaust survivor on a
mysterious mission.
Drake, who recently discovered that
her own mother is a Holocaust sur-
vivor,.enrolls in classes to learn more
about her heritage. The mystery man's

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Reviewed by Beverly E Mindlin
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Money

To fans of Faye
Kellerman's
Peter Decker-
Rina Lazarus
series, a new
star is on the
horizon. Her
name is
Rochelle Krich,
and this child of Holocaust survivors
seems to have replicated the formula
that has made Kellerman's novels so
successful over the years.

Rochelle Krich

Holocaust background enhances her
desire to learn more about him.
She visits the old-age home and
finds many people there in circum-
stances similar to those of Norman
Pomerantz. She also uncovers a plot to
bilk survivors out of the restitution
money Swiss banks have agreed to pay
them for the art and money looted
from them during World War II.
Although the plot jumps from what
seems at times to be a travelogue of
Jewish institutions in Los Angeles to
art museums to the loneliness and
memories of survivors — and despite
the fact that the ending is contrived
and sudden — Blood Money is a
charming read.
It reminded me of the Nancy
Drew/Hardy Boys mysteries I read
when I was young, only with a
delightful Yiddish flavor.
Although you can't take this book
too seriously, I must admit I'm look-
ing forward to Krich's next one.

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