Irene Dische Book order

At the end of what is (she cannot help observing) an extraordinary life, Elisabeth Rother has decided to write her memoirs. She recounts her narrow escape with her Jewish husband from the Nazis, and the perilous voyage to the New World of New Jersey, but those, for her, are mere facts of life. For Elisabeth, bighearted and obstinate, the most bothersome and consuming subjects are the unconventional paths and waywardness of her daughter, Renate, and her granddaughter, Irene. The Empress of Weehawken is a curiously touching love letter to the difficult but sustaining love of mothers and daughters. Written in the voice of the author's very real grandmother, it is "superb . . . razor-sharp, desert-dry, and luxuriantly ironic" (The San Diego Union-Tribune).

Alan Korkunc is a notorious Kurdish assassin who is perhaps not strong or mean enough to work in New York City. With limited English, he has problems just ordering coffee let alone planning an assassination.

At a New York City morgue, a young forensic pathologist, Dr Ronald Hake, believes that secret sinning, like any disease, can be detected. He wants to test his methods on a living patient, Carl Bauer, an elderly man he believes to be Adolf Hitler in hiding. This is the author's first novel.