Gabriel Cohen, Author . Academy Chicago $15.95 (221p) ISBN 978-0-89733-558-4
Cohen's impressive second novel abandons the gritty waterfront of his Edgar-nominated debut, Red Hook
, in favor of a rapidly gentrifying nook a few stops up the F train line. Shortly after 9/11 in Brooklyn's Boerum Hill, Jamel Wilson, a 16-y
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Gabriel Cohen, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (278p) ISBN 978-0-312-62501-6
A family tragedy comes back to haunt Jack Leightner in Cohen's less than inspired fourth crime novel featuring the Brooklyn homicide detective (after 2009's Neptune Avenue
). In 1965, Jack watched as his 13-year-old brother, Petey, was...
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Gabriel Cohen, Author Da Capo Lifelong Books $15.95 (267p) ISBN 978-1-60094-050-7
When his wife walks out on him, novelist Cohen (Red Hook) is stunned: ""I didn't call out, didn't follow her to the door, I just lay down on the couch... as if I was settling into the coffin of our marriage."" How he gets through the subsequent...
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Gabriel Cohen, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-27458-0
This first effort from Cohen works both as a good mystery and a literary novel. It is better than promising (may the gods take note): it is accomplished. The mystery involves a young Dominican, Tomas Berrios, found stabbed to death with two concrete
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Gabriel Cohen, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-312-36266-9
Death and recovery consume Det. Jack Leightner in his second appearance and validate the praise Cohen received for Red Hook
(2001). Winter is settling over New York harbor and a small coffin containing the body of a boy floats off a Red Hook pier....
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Gabriel Cohen, Author . Minotaur $24.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-312-38061-8
Jack Leightner juggles two Brooklyn cases in Cohen’s so-so third novel to feature the NYPD detective (after 2007’s The Graving Dock
): the staged suicides of two women and the murder of Russian Daniel Lelo, with whom Leightner shared a...
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