Crimes of the City

Robert Rosenberg. Penguin Books, $5.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-14-016686-6

Jerusalem cop Avram Cohen contends with religious, political and international tensions while he searches for the killer of two nuns in Rosenberg's impressive thriller. (July)

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