The Yiddish Policemen's Union

The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007) by Michael Chabon. Chabon has created an alternate universe in which the Jews settled, not in Israel, but in Alaska (don't ask). The action of this novel all takes place in and around Sitka, Alaska, where Meyer Landsman, the protagonist, lives. Landsman has the misfortune to be flopping in a hotel where one of the other residents turns up dead -- murdered. In the process of investigating the murder, Landsman runs up against all the villains you can imagine, in all kinds of settings. It's a fairly entertaining book, but not one of my all-time favorites. Grade: B