Jenevin's Search

Norman Jenevin, age thirty-five, is a former LAPD crime lab analyst. Unwilling to adapt to the slow pace and lack of common sense in today’s legal system, he has turned to a career in private investigation. His operating base is a combination office, apartment, and laboratory in North Hollywood, California. In Jenevin’s Search, he’s simultaneously working two jobs. The first, an insurance company assignment, concerns a nighttime theft of paintings from the mansion of former art dealer, Ardella Applebee. Wheelchair-bound and frail, she is dependent on principal aide, Kathern Rago, who has introduced her to a meditation retreat for the wealthy. The second job is a hunt for the runaway daughter of Ardella’s neighbor, Lauren Groves. A lead to her whereabouts is boyfriend, Odale Thomass. But he has also disappeared, possibly into the drug underground.

As bits of evidence begin to fit together, Jenevin realizes his two cases are interrelated, and solution of one may help to unravel the other. During his search for information in a variety of Southern California locations, several people die. And Jenevin, aided by his laboratory skills and surviving an attempt on his own life, discovers answers to both puzzles in an unsuspected murder. “Fascinating details of the art and science worlds, combined with murder and mayhem.“ – Robert Irvine, Author of the Moroni Traveler mysteries “Jenevin’s Search leads you into a labyrinth of murder and intrigue.“ – Val Davis, Author of the Nick Scott series