Reed Farrel Coleman
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The James Deans: A Moe Prager Mystery
Reed Farrel Coleman
- 2006 Anthony-Paperback winner
- 2006 Barry-Paperback winner
- 2006 Shamus-Paperback winner
- 2006 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- 2006 Macavity-Novel nominee
- Score: 42.56
It’s 1983 and Reaganomics is in full swing. But beneath the facade of junk bonds and easy money, New York remains a gritty metropolis offering Nirvana with one hand and desolation with the other. Moe Prager, ex-NYPD cop turned reluctant P.I. is too busy reeling from a family tragedy to see what’s coming. He’s about to be sucked into a case that might deliver him what he’s always wanted or plunge him into purgatory.
Two years earlier, Moira Heaton, a young intern for an up-and-coming politico, vanished without a trace. Although there is no evidence supporting…
Soul Patch: A Moe Prager Mystery
Reed Farrel Coleman
- 2008 Barry-Novel nominee
- 2008 Edgar–Novel nominee
- 2008 Macavity-Novel nominee
- 2008 Shamus-Novel nominee
- Score: 24.58
In this darkly intriguing follow-up to the Shamus and Barry winning The James Deans, ex-NYPD cop turned P.I. and entrepreneur, Moe Prager is faced with a gut-wrenching case. The apparent suicide of his old friend and NYPD Chief of Detectives, Larry McDonald, forces Moe back onto the decaying Coney Island streets he patrolled when he was in uniform. But now, beneath the boardwalk and behind the rusted and crumbling rides of the midway, he finds a trail of death, betrayal, and corruption reaching back to 1972. As Faulkner once said, “The past is never dead. It isn’t even past.” So it goes for Moe Prager in Soul Patch.
