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Now living in New York, ex-cop Frank Clemons investigates a brutal slashing
 
The sleek high-rises of Park Avenue make Frank Clemons uneasy. The former Atlanta homicide detective came to New York after a sickening murder case soured him on the South, but despite the glitz of his new surroundings and the beauty of the woman he shares them with, the city makes his skin crawl. Now a private eye, he is only at ease in the city’s darker corners, among the whores, gamblers, and pimps who call Eighth Avenue home. That affinity for the isolated is what draws him to Hannah Karlsberg, an elderly seamstress who deserved a better death than she got.
 
Hannah’s employer asks Clemons to find the victim’s next of kin, so the police can release the body for burial. As he learns about the dead woman’s past, which stretches back to the Lower East Side of the 1930s, Clemons becomes obsessed with unearthing the decades-old secret that led to her death.
 
Flesh and Blood is the second book in the Frank Clemons Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Flesh and Blood The Frank Clemons Mysteries Book 2 edition by Thomas H Cook Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks

Lots of twists and turns, from the New York sweatshops of the 30's to the fashion industry of the 90's, from the jungles of South America to the jungles of New York City. I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would.

Product details File Size 2396 KB Print Length 288 pages Publisher MysteriousPress.com/Open Road (September 6, 2011) Publication Date September 6, 2011 Language English ASIN B005JZ6TCY

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Flesh and Blood The Frank Clemons Mysteries Book 2 edition by Thomas H Cook Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews

Frank Clemons is now a private investigator in New York City, in a strained relationship with Karen Devereaux. He is approached with a request to find the next-of-kin of a murdered woman.

Frank begins his lengthy investigation by trying to learn more about the woman's background, and each small discovery leads to another. He learns that Hannah and her sisters, after being orphaned, worked in the sweatshops of the garment industry.

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I am reminded of "Six Characters in Search of An Author", wherein the characters of an unfinished manuscript, come on stage and demanded to be completed. These characters in Flesh and Blood - even ones on the stage for only a moment - stay with you as full bodied, living people. There was an elderly woman being cared for by a drugged out niece that I wanted so much to find and bring home. The vision of the main character with her hand in the air, fighting for the causes of the union is as clear as a photograph.

I found the story to be unpredictable with interesting twists and sidelines, just as found in life. I will absolutely look for more books by Thomas Cook.
"We are like the body, which needs all its parts to work. We are like the fingers of the hand." These were the early, impassioned words of the apparently soulless doyenne of the garment trade who is found murdered--and mutilated by the severing of her hand--in her sophisticated apartment. The case comes to Frank Clemons, as he anticipates "He didn't know what he'd been waiting for but only that when it came, it would be wrapped in something else, that he wouldn't recognize it until, like a hand in the dark, it suddenly gripped him from behind." The wrapping turns out to be the garment trade itself, and the grip is the long, hidden past of a woman who appeared to have no past. Clemons' investigations lead him back into the lives of garment workers in the 30s, the world of women and men who "worked their fingers to the bone" and ultimately, to the continuing injustices done against workers in our own day. As always, Cook shows himself to be an extraordinarily fine writer, casually shedding incandescent images the way a welder's torch sheds sparks. His main character, Frank Clemons, is a man suffering from the deepest alienation. Grey is his color, night his time, dullness his tone of voice. He represents the determination to mourn truthfully for his own daughter, a suicide victim, and also for the victims of crimes he has solved in the past. There is integrity in his stance, as against his lover's determination to fuzz the edges of her own grief with material comforts and pastel colors. But one has to be grateful that Clemons picks up an exotic and witty sidekick in Farouk, whose fatalism is lifted by a certain joy in companionship and the human condition. If the novel has a flaw, it's that a host of characters cross the stage, do one stunningly informative turn, and then disappear, never to be seen again. To Cook's credit, he endows each with individuality, and the story strung together on this series of encounters is fascinating--even a little fantastic toward the end--but never outright unbelieveable. What remains most moving is the image of the victim as a young woman, speaking out in the cold, a defiant fist raised for justice. Cook's antihero does justice to her--brings all her life together, like the fingers of the hand.
A garment designer called Hannah is slain and her hand is severed and is missing. While the police investigate the killing, PI Frank Clemons is hired by Hannah’s rich employer, Imalia, to locate any living relatives of the dead woman, so they can claim the body after the police have finished with it. Frank is helped in his quest by the mysterious Farouk, who proves useful with many contacts; they make a good world-weary team.

Hannah had two sisters, but they’re hard to find. Frank starts to dig, from Hannah’s childhood with her rabbi father, fresh from Poland, in the 1920s. Slowly, a picture of Hannah begins to emerge. After their father’s death, Hannah cared for her younger sisters and found work in a garment sweat-shop. She joined a union and became a visionary, instituting a strike for better conditions in the 1930s.

‘For a long time, Frank stared silently at the photograph. He could almost feel the cold winter wind which lifted her scar and held it fluttering in the air, hear the roar of the crowd as they cheered her, feel the triumph of her hand in the crisp biting air, sense the sheer driving power of her voice as it pealed over them, crying out the words (of inspiration)’ (p117)

This is one of those detective novels American authors do so well, unpeeling the past, and in the process illuminating the working and living conditions suffered by the deceased protagonists. The fashion industry of the time is laid bare the final revelations are troubling, even shocking, in several ways, but it would be unkind to reveal why; suffice it to say that the conclusion was satisfactory and provided a closure of sorts for Frank.

In many instances, Cook’s writing tends to rise above the standard PI novel. Frank exhibits great empathy for the victims ‘Whatever small hope still remained for Hannah Karlsberg had died in that moment, and a few terrible seconds later, she had died as well.’ (p35)

Throughout, there’s the shadow of Hannah and her brutal death, hovering, and as Frank’s investigation brings him close to a solution, the foreboding becomes fact ‘Frank turned and looked at the room, and as he did so, a chill swept over him, haunting and inexplicable, a sense that the world had suddenly shifted in its flight, edged itself a little deeper into the engulfing darkness.’ (p245)

Recommended.
Cook has a talent both with words and plot. I found this book to be a cut above the standard "detective fiction" .
I will definitely look for more from this author.
Lots of twists and turns, from the New York sweatshops of the 30's to the fashion industry of the 90's, from the jungles of South America to the jungles of New York City. I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would.