Mike Kerr

Mike Kerr, a Chicago native, is the author of the three titles in the Legman series, an anthology where the common thread is a protagnoist who is or was a legman reporter, someone who legs out the routine details for the person with the byline. His stories are a mix of mystery, crime and historical fiction with three-dimensional characters who inhabit the neighborhoods during the city’s many brilliant and yet deadly eras.

Maria and the Russian Soldier: A Trail from Ukrainian Holodomor (Legman)

By: Mike Kerr

When celebrated author and lecturer Maria Kovalenko receives an invitation to speak at a charity function in Chicago from Leonid Kozlov, whom she hasn't seen since he abandoned her 4 years ago, the past grips her. Leonid is now a wealthy man and a criminal boss. She shouldn't go. She has to see him. Their love story began years ago in Ukraine under the Russian oppression and man-made famine.He was a hero lost in an evil cause. And I was a female dying in that cause. Despite his training or allegiance to carry out his orders, he had a primal instinct to protect a woman. The sight of me, not quite eighteen, sparked that instinct. In my eyes he saw himself for what he was and for what he was do...