Ken Bruen, Author, Reed Farrel Coleman, Author . Busted Flush $15 (172p) ISBN 978-1-935415-07-7
Divided into two halves, this short, brutally poetic tour of the underside of Brooklyn, Boston and Philadelphia marks the first collaboration between noir masters Bruen (The Guards
) and Coleman (The James Deans
). Drawing on the classic theme of...
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Reed Farrel Coleman. Tyrus (F+W Media, dist.), $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4405-3946-6
Edgar-finalist Coleman’s outstanding eighth Moe Prager mystery (after 2011’s Hurt Machine) explains how the NYPD detective turned PI became a cop. The 2012 funeral of an old friend prompts Prager to recount the complex history he shared with the...
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Reed Farrel Coleman. Putnam, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-57494-8
Edgar-finalist Coleman’s superior fifth Jesse Stone novel (after 2017’s The Hangman’s Sonnet) finds the police chief of Paradise, Mass., back on duty after two months in rehab to try to stay sober. His return coincides with a series of hate crimes,...
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Reed Farrel Coleman. Putnam, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-17304-2
Shamus Award–winner Coleman delves deep into the wounded psyche of his ex-cop lead, Gus Murphy, in his outstanding sequel to 2016’s Where It Hurts. Gus, who’s still struggling with the sudden death of his 20-year-old son, John Jr., kills time...
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Reed Farrel Coleman. Putnam, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-17143-7
Coleman isn’t afraid to alter the status quo in his taut third continuation of Parker’s series featuring small-town police chief Jesse Stone (after 2015’s The Devil Wins). Jesse, who rebounded from losing his job with the LAPD because of his...
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Reed Farrel Coleman. Putnam, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-17303-5
Edgar-finalist Coleman (Soul Patch) offers a searing look at the dark underside of Long Island in this stellar series kickoff. Ex-cop Gus Murphy, whose 20-year-old son, John Jr., dropped dead playing basketball, works as a night shift van driver and
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Reed Farrel Coleman. Putnam, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-16946-5
Coleman’s solid second Jesse Stone novel (after 2014’s Blind Spot) finds Parker’s flawed hero, now the police chief of Paradise, Mass., still having trouble separating from his ex, connecting with people emotionally, and dealing with guilt over a...
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Reed Farrel Coleman. Putnam, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-16945-8
Shamus Award winner Coleman, best known for his Moe Prager series (The Hollow Girl, etc.), successfully emulates the tone and style of the late Robert B. Parker’s nine Jesse Stone novels, though readers should be prepared for a cookie-cutter crime...
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Reed Farrel Coleman. Tyrus (F + W Media, dist.), $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4405-6202-0
In Coleman’s solid ninth Moe Prager novel (after 2013’s Onion Street), the PI and wine merchant falls off the wagon, big-time, after the woman he just proposed to, Pam, is crushed beneath the wheels of a high-school grad’s new Jeep Wrangler on a...
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Reed Farrel Coleman, Author . Permanent $26 (264p) ISBN 978-1-57962-039-4
Raymond Chandler once advised that when things get slow in a story, have a man with a gun come through the door. What's most remarkable about Coleman's first mystery to feature Brooklyn PI Moe Praeger (after three Dylan Klein noirs: Little...
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Reed Farrel Coleman. F+W Media/Tyrus, $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4405-5199-4
New Jersey community college teacher Kip Weiler, who was “a writer to watch” in the 1980s before drug addiction and an utter lack of self-discipline ended his career and his marriage, gets a second chance in this superior crime thriller from Shamus...
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Reed Farrel Coleman. Tyrus, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4405-3199-6
Razor-edged contemporary whodunits don’t get much better than Shamus-winner Coleman’s seventh Moe Prager mystery (after 2010’s Innocent Monster). Shortly after the Brooklyn PI learns that he has stomach cancer, Carmella Melendez, his ex-wife, asks...
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Reed Farrel Coleman, Author Permanent Press (NY) $24 (208p) ISBN 978-1-877946-95-0
On the trail of a missing nephew, Dylan Klein, a former insurance investigator who's now a noir novelist, finds himself on the campus of an upstate New York college engaged in some highly inventive sex with Kira Watanabe, a Japanese girl half his...
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Reed Farrel Coleman, Author Permanent Press (NY) $24 (221p) ISBN 978-1-877946-23-3
Aspiring writer Dylan Klein is tending bar in a small town not far from New York City on a cold winter's night when an overly made up middle-aged woman comes in asking for Johnny Blue. There is no Johnny Blue, only a Johnny MacClough, a former cop...
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Reed Farrel Coleman, Author Permanent Press (NY) $21.95 (271p) ISBN 978-1-877946-05-9
Billed as a hard-boiled detective novel, this mystery debut ambitiously attempts to recall pulp fiction of the '30s and '40s. Coleman shows skill in creating the salty, quick-witted dialogue that readers expect from this genre, giving the best lines
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Reed Farrell Coleman, Tyrus (Consortium, dist.), $24.95 (280p) ISBN 978-1-935562-20-7
In Shamus-winner Coleman's darkly impressive sixth Moe Prager mystery (after 2008's Empty Ever After), the retired Brooklyn PI takes on a baffling missing person case only because his estranged daughter, Sarah, begs him to help. In the three weeks...
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Reed Farrel Coleman, Author . Bleak House $24.95 (259p) ISBN 978-1-932557-65-7
In the dark, compelling fifth Moe Prager mystery from Anthony-winner Coleman (after 2007’s Soul Patch
), the PI and former New York City cop pays a heavy price for a choice he made in the late 1970s after locating the missing Patrick Maloney....
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Reed Farrel Coleman, Author . Bleak House $24.95 (233p) ISBN 978-1-932557-35-0
Set in late 1980s New York City, Coleman's gritty fourth Moe Prager mystery is somewhat less surprising and realistic than its acclaimed predecessor, The James Deans
(2005), which won Shamus, Barry and Anthony awards. Prager, an ex-cop turned...
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Reed Farrel Coleman, Author . Plume $12 (277p) ISBN 978-0-452-28650-4
Coleman draws inspiration from the real-life Gary Condit/Chandra Levy case for his appealing third hard-boiled mystery set in the early 1980s (after 2004's Redemption Street
). New York PI Moe Prager and his wife, still traumatized by a recent...
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Reed Farrel Coleman, Author . Viking $22.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-670-03291-4
Set in 1981, Coleman's fast-paced sequel to Walking the Perfect Square
(2002) will please fans of both hard-boiled and traditional mysteries. A retired cop with an inactive PI license, Prager is happily bored in his new incarnation as a...
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Reed Farrel Coleman, read by James Naughton. Random House Audio, unabridged, 7 CDs, 9 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-553-39823-6
The Jesse Stone novels, about perhaps Robert B. Parker’s most complex character, are now being channeled by Reed Farrel Coleman. In this well-plotted tale, police chief Jesse Stone, a former minor league baseball player with big league possibilities
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Reed Farrel Coleman. Putnam, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-17144-4
Coleman’s heartfelt fourth contribution to Parker’s Jesse Stone series explores the meaning of a haunting line from the eponymous sonnet: “The mirror has revealed my hangman’s face.” Jesse, the police chief of Paradise, Mass., has been deeply...
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Reed Farrel Coleman. Putnam, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-57497-9
Bestseller Coleman’s exceptional sixth Jesse Stone novel finds Jesse, the police chief of Paradise, Mass., still adjusting to the revelation in 2018’s Colorblind that he fathered a now adult son, Cole Slayton. Cole’s arrival in town comes “just as...
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Reed Farrel Coleman. Blackstone, $26.99 (322p) ISBN 978-1-9826-2747-8
Anthony Award winner Coleman (the Moe Prager series) introduces an intriguing lead with this timely and accomplished series launch. Following in the footsteps of his father, who blew the whistle on an entire police precinct that protected drug...
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