The Boot in the Snow

About the Book

Jerre Morrissey’s gallant Swiss Inspector of Police, Berndt Oliver, sets out to solve a local murder and winds up leading an international team of detectives through Switzerland, Spain, Singapore and the U.S.A. A love story, several murders, plus vivid adventures with mobsters and talented women on both sides of the law unfold during their pursuit of the perpetrators of a string of multi-million dollar thefts of Old Masters and modern masterpieces. Set in 1988, the story, its characters, their names and actions are all products of the author’s imagination. The book is pure fiction.

About the Author

As a Korean War military historian stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany, with service in the Middle East, and later the father of five, a Catholic high school principal, and volunteer counselor in federal prisons in Georgia and Indiana, Jerre Morrissey tells a great story.

He taught social studies in the Chicago public high schools and wrote for the one of the North Shore's famous local newspapers while a graduate student at Northwestern University. He was an insurance company executive in Atlanta before deciding to return to his first love, education, and earned a Ph.D. at Indiana State University.