Stephen Solomita, Author . Severn $27.95 (185p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6721-6
Shortly after Judson Two-Bears Hootier Jr. is released from Rikers Island, 19-year-old Hootie finds his desire to stay on the straight-and-narrow severely tested in this middling crime thriller set in New York City from Solomita (Monkey in the...
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Stephen Solomita, Author . Severn $27.95 (203p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6853-4
Solomita (Cracker Bling
) deserves credit for dealing with end-of-life issues, but he could've done a better job addressing the serious ethical implications of euthanasia in this mediocre contemporary procedural set in New York City. After many
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Stephen Solomita, Author Bantam Books $7.4 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-57770-9
A dying old man moonlighting as a serial killer in rural Pennsylvania provides the grist for this grisly thriller. When smart, likable Patricia Detrick volunteers at the local Senior Aid Mission and is assigned to care for Ezekiel McTeague, a 73-year
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Stephen Solomita, Author Putnam Publishing Group $17.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-13401-2
Solomita's promising debut novel pulsates with the vitality of New York's street life. Det. Sgt. Stanley Moodrow is one of those cops who go by the book. And, if those methods fail, the 20-year veteran is not afraid to implement his own procedures....
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Stephen Solomita, Author Putnam Publishing Group $21.95 (253p) ISBN 978-0-399-13593-4
In his fourth adventure, ex-New York City cop Stanley Moodrow, now a portly curmudgeon and private eye, is pitted against Davis Craddock, leader of Hanover House, a 200-member cult located in Moodrow's old beat, the Lower East Side. After being...
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Stephen Solomita, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-399-13491-3
NYPD Detective Stanley Moodrow is up against a brutal adversary in this powerful and relentlessly engaging sequel to A Twist of the Knife. Less a man than ``a force of nature,'' drug-dealing Levander Greenwood has killed a cop, and is expected to...
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Stephen Solomita, Author Avon Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-70949-6
Drug-dealing Levander Greenwood has killed a cop and is expected to kill more when NYPD Detective Stanley Moodrow and his handpicked partner start hunting him in what PW termed a ``powerful and relentlessly engaging sequel to A Twist of the Knife. ''
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Stephen Solomita, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-399-13559-0
Tough guy Stanley Moodrow returns (after A Force of Nature ) for his third gritty bout with crime in the Big Apple. Retired from the NYPD, PI Moodrow is asked by his new love interest, Legal Aid lawyer Betty Haluka, to check into the sudden...
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Stephen Solomita, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (271p) ISBN 978-0-399-13730-3
The author of A Twist of the Knife and three other suspense novels starring New York City police detective Stanley Moodrow, Solomita here goes back in time, weaving a satisfying, fast-paced tale of his character's first years on the force. It's 1957,
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Stephen Solomita, Author Avon Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71760-6
A sleuth to identify with, ex-cop Stanley Moodrow is pitted, in his fourth adventure, against a drug-dealing cult leader based in his old beat, New York City's Lower East Side. (Sept.)
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Stephen Solomita, Author O. Penzler Books $21 (297p) ISBN 978-1-883402-03-7
Solomita's ( A Twist of the Knife ; Bad to the Bone ) latest novel is a relentlessly talky book, filled with acts of violence unimaginatively described. Roland Means, a chronic maverick in the NYPD, is pulled from cop purgatory--ballistics duty--to...
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Stephen Solomita, Author Otto Penzler Books $21 (310p) ISBN 978-1-883402-27-3
Solomita's second book not to feature his NYPD series hero, Stanley Moodrow, follows last year's A Good Day to Die and is more successful than its predecessor--but not by much. Here, the PI is computer whiz Marty Blake, who on his first case at his...
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Stephen Solomita, Author Scribner Book Company $21.5 (380p) ISBN 978-0-684-81584-8
Mountainous Stanley Moodrow, hero of five N.Y.C. crime thrillers (A Piece of the Action, etc.), makes a welcome return--as does Solomita's gritty sensibility, missing from his recent, and weaker, non-Moodrow novels (Last Chance for Glory, etc.)....
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Stephen Solomita. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8076-5
In this bleak stand-alone from Solomita (Mercy Killing), hit man Leonard Carter unexpectedly meets beautiful call girl Angela “Angel” Tamanaka after Carter fatally shoots one of her clients, mobster Enrico Benedetti (aka Ricky Ditto), at Ricky’s...
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Stephen Solomita. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8228-8
This dark, satisfying crime novel from Solomita (Angel Face) introduces Boots Littlewood, a deeply flawed Brooklyn police detective perfectly cast to deal with the hard luck, hard-living characters that surround him. Boots passes on a tip about a...
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Stephen Solomita. Severn, $28.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8462-6
At the outset of Solomita’s satisfying sequel to 2013’s Dancer in the Flames, Teddy Winuk, an ambitious crook on the rise, goes for a walk early one cold fall morning in Greenpoint, the industrial Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up. Muffled sobs
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