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Robert Boris gives an overview of the book:

Deadly Bones: Jake Wanderman is not your average retired Shakespeare teacher. He recently clashed with the russian Mafia and emerged triumphant. Now Martha StewartishTV star Toby Welch persuades Jake to help solve the vicious murder of her art dealer father. It turns out that her father was involved in Ancient Art antiquities fraud which eventualltya leads Jake to Jerusalem. He scours the Holy City and finds himself drugged, abducted, tortured by Russian Mafia types and fake gurus. He is helped by a beautiful Israeli detective which causes him emotional problems as well. Deadly Bones ripples with humor, quirky characters and thrilling plot spirals. Jake tells his story in a Brooklyn wise-guy style that reads like salted peanuts never missing a chyance, of course, to add a pinch of Shakespeare for taste.
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Deadly Bones: Jake Wanderman is not your average retired Shakespeare teacher. He recently clashed with the russian Mafia and emerged triumphant. Now Martha StewartishTV star Toby Welch persuades Jake to help solve the vicious murder of her art dealer father. It turns out that her father was involved in Ancient Art antiquities fraud which eventualltya leads Jake to Jerusalem. He scours the Holy City and finds himself drugged, abducted, tortured by Russian Mafia types and fake gurus. He is helped by a beautiful Israeli detective which causes him emotional problems as well.

Deadly Bones ripples with humor, quirky characters and thrilling plot spirals. Jake tells his story in a Brooklyn wise-guy style that reads like salted peanuts never missing a chyance, of course, to add a pinch of Shakespeare for taste.

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What I try to do is provide a funny fast furious entertainment.

About Robert Boris

Robert Boris Riskin has been writing fiction most of his adult life. He went to the University of Michigan where he studied playwriting with Kenneth Rowe, but switched to fiction shortly thereafter. He did the usual stint at helping his writing career by working at a variety...

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Published Reviews

Jun.25.2009

Corpses and Coq au VinBy Michael Z. Jody(03/24/2009) “Deadly Bones,” the new thriller by Boris Riskin and the second Jake Wanderman novel, is barely four pages into its prologue when the first victim, a...