Matt Jacob, a drug-abusing Boston janitor, turns private detective to investigate mysterious break-ins at his therapist's office and to discover what is causing his best friend's wife to have such horrific nightmares, only to stumble into a high-level conspiracy

Still Among the Living

Literature & Fiction

Klein, Zachary

United States

Harpercollins

Detective Matt Jacob returns to a seedy part of Boston, the End, to investigate a murder that has remained unsolved for twenty years, only to fall in love and stumble upon an elaborate conspiracy

Two Way Toll: A Matt Jacob Novel of Suspense

He's seen his share of life's darker side as a social worker -- and more than his share of its underside as a private eye in the less-than-blueblood districts of Boston. He watches too much late-night TV, smokes too many cigarettes, and thinks too much for his own good. Sometimes high, often down, but never out, Matt Jacob is a survivor. Maybe that's what draws him to his latest assignment -- penetrating the fiercely private world of an embattled Hasidic Jewish sect. In the midst of a holy celebration, a powerful and beloved rabbi is gunned down by the ringleader of a white supremacist hate group -- who in turn is shot dead by another rabbi. To help attorney and friend Simon Roth defend the volatile Rabbi Yonah Saperstein, Matt agrees to ferret out the first-hand facts in the double slaying. Amid the Hasidim, Matt finds a people with a rage to survive. Among the White Avengers, he finds only rage. Though the battle lines are clearly drawn, Matt's moral compass detects a blurring of the lines between good and evil, right and wrong, justice and vigilantism, as he follows them into the hearts and minds of the warring groups' charismatic leaders.

No Saving Grace

Ballantine Books

Matt Jacob, a drug-abusing Boston janitor, turns private detective to investigate mysterious break-ins at his therapist's office and to discover what is causing his best friend's wife to have such horrific nightmares, only to stumble into a high-level conspiracy

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Fawcett

Matt Jacob has plenty of good reasons to avoid his past. His present isn't all that wonderful either. The alienated detective is adrift on a sea of unresolved relationships when a chance encounter with a ragged figure throws him back to his days as a social worker in The End -- a forsaken pocket of Boston that's home to society's hopeless, helpless, and desperate. Asked to reopen the case of a man dead for twenty years, Matt disturbs more than one ghost as he spirals down a path of drugs, sex, and violence into the mysteries of his own past. "A crackerjack detective. And an original and compelling fictional creation." -- The Boston Globe

Two Way Toll

He's seen his share of life's darker side as a social worker -- and more than his share of its underside as a private eye in the less-than-blueblood districts of Boston. He watches too much late-night TV, smokes too many cigarettes, and thinks too much for his own good. Sometimes high, often down, but never out, Matt Jacob is a survivor.Maybe that's what draws him to his latest assignment -- penetrating the fiercely private world of an embattled Hasidic Jewish sect. In the midst of a holy celebration, a powerful and beloved rabbi is gunned down by the ringleader of a white supremacist hate group -- who in turn is shot dead by another rabbi. To help attorney and friend Simon Roth defend the volatile Rabbi Yonah Saperstein, Matt agrees to ferret out the first-hand facts in the double slaying.Amid the Hasidim, Matt finds a people with a rage to survive. Among the White Avengers, he finds only rage. Though the battle lines are clearly drawn, Matt's moral compass detects a blurring of the lines between good and evil, right and wrong, justice and vigilantism, as he follows them into the hearts and minds of the warring groups' charismatic leaders.

Former social worker-turned-private investigator Matt Jacob has had his share of vices and woes. But he has always managed to stay one foot ahead of the criminals he hunts, while keeping one foot out of the grave. Now Matt is struggling to kick his addictions, put his demons under wraps and settle down with a woman who makes him happy. Then, a phone call changes everything. Lou, the father of Matt’s dead wife, is on the line, irascible and distraught. His new girlfriend’s son has attempted suicide and Lou, for some unknown reason, refuses to get paramedics or the police involved. When Matt uncovers the truth behind this boy’s despair, everything he has worked so hard for could end in an instant: his sobriety, his relationships with loved ones, even his own life. In Ties That Blind, Zachary Klein brings back some of the most original and riveting characters in crime fiction and puts them in a story that grips from the first page to the last.

Ties That Blind: A Matt Jacob Novel (Matt Jacob, 4)

Polis Books

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Still Among the Living

Two Way Toll: A Matt Jacob Novel of Suspense

No Saving Grace

Still Among the Living

Two Way Toll

No Saving Grace

Ties That Blind: A Matt Jacob Novel (Matt Jacob, 4)