Making A Killing In Diamonds by Rob Bates; Kenmore, Washington: Camel Press; © 2025; ISBN 9781684-923229; 238 pages plus a glossary; $16.95
SAN DIEGO – Not everybody who works in New York Metropolis’s diamond district is Jewish, however sufficient persons are that it is sensible {that a} fictional detective who additionally works for her father within the diamond district is known as Mimi Rosen.
The normal diamond business is threatened when an organization threatens to flood the market with laboratory-made diamonds which are indistinguishable from these present in mines. They may promote at a less expensive value and since they’re indistinguishable from conventional diamonds the web impact can be to devalue all diamonds.
Fortunes could be misplaced if the laboratory-grown diamonds are launched – motive for looking for to cease their launch by any means potential.
Mimi’s function in that is to search out out all she will in regards to the firm rising diamonds artificially. She is also tasked with discovering a way that the diamonds may be differentiated from the extra precious conventional ones.
The homicide of an govt of a standard diamond firm is the preliminary killing to which the guide’s title refers.
That is the fourth and remaining installment of creator Bates’ “Diamond District Thriller Collection.” It’s a stand-alone thriller novel that may be loved with out figuring out the earlier three. Hebrew and Yiddish phrases are seamlessly woven into the material of the story.
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Donald H. Harrison is writer and editor of San Diego Jewish World.
