Friend of the Departed

Great as usual Love the Kopriva books and the river city novels. Kopriva is an awesome character....Frank keep writing them books. I'd like to see some Katie books.......more

Friend of the Departed is a PI Mystery. Stef Kopriva used to be a cop, but that was more than ten years ago. A shooting, a wrong call, and a deep, personal relationship with a liquor bottle took him from a stand-up guy to the bottom of the barrel. He’s unofficially in the business of doing favors fo......more

Slavic strength and despair The book creates a feeling of the inevitability of bread lines in the former USSR, of a man driven to introspection, to brooding, to acting upon his moral compass regardless of the cost. The fight scenes seemed somewhat gratuitous , but the inner and expressed dialogue rem......more

A good read for the most part I like the overall storyline, I like the fact that it’s clean, and the protagonist Stefan Kopriva is likable. And I can understand the reason behind the river city police department detesting him, but for me, it’s a distraction from what? Otherwise is a good series. But......more

Morality of a situation rather than the legality of a case is why Kopriva is good. Harrity wants him to look into the case before taking. The husband had been a friend of the lawyer, which there were few he had. A job of investigator he never felt comfortable in doing. What Harrity was really asking......more