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His career derailed by the vengeful billionaire Curtlee family for his part in convicting one of their number for murder, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky learns that the killer has won a retrial at the same time a star witness has been murdered.

Max Friedman, a concentration camp survivor, goes for a walk one night in Golden Gate Park. There is a noise and then a young man leaps out of the bushes, stares at Max a moment, and runs away. The next day, Max reads in the paper that a girl has been raped and killed in the park. Soon, a man is arrested for the crime. The suspect is a neo-Nazi, but he is not the young man Max saw in the park. All his life Max lived by the motto: Mind your own business. His wife Sarah, who did not survive the camps, used to chide him about it. So he tries to ignore the case even though he knows the accused man is innocent. The man, after all, is a Nazi. Besides, Max meets a woman at the social service agency where he works and he doesn't want anything to interfere with his new relationship. But Sarah will not leave him alone. And neither will Shmuel, another survivor, who has a way of reminding Max of a past he would rather forget. As the story shifts between San Francisco in the 1970s and Germany in the 1930s, The Kiss of the Prison Dancer explores the life of a man trapped in a moral dilemma. This compelling and controversial novel will have readers asking themselves what they would do under similar circumstances.
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When she unwittingly witnesses the murder of a young homeless boy and is seen by the perpetrator, her relatively stable life is upended. Suddenly, everyone from the police to the dead boys parents want to talk to Maddy about what she saw. As adults pressure her to give up her secrets and reunite with her own family before she meets a similar fate, Maddy must decide whether she wants to stay lost or be found. Against the backdrop of a radically changing San Francisco, a city which embraces a booming tech economy while struggling to maintain its culture of tolerance, At the Edge of the Haight follows the lives of those who depend on makeshift homes and communities. As judge Hillary Jordan says, "This book pulled me deep into a world I knew little about, bringing the struggles of its young, homeless inhabitants - the kind of people we avoid eye contact with on the street - to vivid, poignant life. The novel demands that you take a close look. If you knew, could you still ignore, fear, or condemn them? And knowing, how can you ever forget?".
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