A student is murdered in his dorm room. An empty suitcase is left across his body. No clear motive. Too many suspects. Everyones lying. When Jake Cooper uncovers a secret, the case explodes into something far bigger, and people are willing to kill to keep the truth buried. A case where bad luck...

A murder inside Chicago's ultra-Orthodox community.A woman arrested for the crime.And the one man who believes the police have the wrong suspect.When Jake Cooper's girlfriend is accused of murder, he begins asking questions inside a community where outsiders rarely see what happens behind closed...

A scribe repairing an old scroll uncovers a buried secret—and is murdered for it. The police call it suicide. The community calls it murder. Jake Cooper isn’t a cop, but he’s the only one who can unravel the deadly secrets hiding behind closed doors. In a world of greed, betrayal, and...

In this riveting thriller Talmudic Scholar turned amateur sleuth Jake Cooper is challenged with solving two crimes in Chicago’s Ultra-Orthodox community while mourning the passing of a loved one.

In this third novel in the Series Jake Cooper investigates the theft of a secret gefilte fish recipe, and finds the body of a missing kosher supervisor in a strange place. Jake finds himself in a personal pickle.