A Liz Roberts Mystery
by Don Canaan
Laura Bedrosian, kidnapped at age 13 and ransomed by her father, is forced to repay him by becoming a sexual replacement for her mentally ill mother. For the next 20 years she repays that debt. But at age 33, her father, now suffering from dementia, is taken to a county fair where he is abandoned.
The father’s only ID is a piece of paper stating that his name is Larry. With her new found freedom, Laura attempts to gather the shattered pieces of her past.
Detective Liz Roberts’s investigation into the abandonment, and to locate Laura, forces the detective to discover long-lost secrets; secrets buried deep within her psyche.
About the Author
Don Canaan went from a Bronx tenement to marriage, children, success in television news film, immigration to Israel, re-marriage, two more children and a return to the U.S.A. and a new facet of journalism–print.
His news background covers four decades of history — from 1960 until his departure from United Press International to become a Quality Editor for LexisNexis. From 1961-1974, Canaan edited news film and documentaries for NBC News in New York, and in 1974 made aliyah as part of an American group planning to settle Yamit in the Sinai.
When he returned to the U.S. film in TV news had become an anachronism — a victim of American technology combined with Asian ingenuity. During three years overseas, 22 years of TV journalism experience disappeared beneath a tidal wave of progress.
The Ohio State University’s School of Journalism in Columbus, Ohio, came to the rescue with an offer to earn a master’s degree while serving as an assistant in its TV news workshop.Then a terrific opportunity came up at the American Israelite. Canaan was brought on board as staff writer, copy editor and photographer. He enterprised stories that brought kudos from the community. His four-part series, “Jews in Ohio’s Prisons: Does Anybody Care?” received a first place award for best weekly journalism in Ohio from the State of Ohio Bar Association.
Don Canaan
