Fresh Kills: An Artie Cohen Mystery (Artie Cohen Mysteries) - Hardcover

Nadelson, Reggie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802715990 ISBN 13: 9780802715999

Publisher: Walker Books, 2007

Synopsis

One of the best mysteries ever set in New York City, the last in an "archipelago trilogy" following 9/11, by the acclaimed author of Disturbed Earth.

With his wife Maxine out of town, Artie Cohen is alone in Manhattan when his nephew Billy Farone is released from the young offenders' institution where he has been since he stabbed Heshey Shank to death. Artie is the one Billy wants to come home to―he's family and he's the only person Billy cares about; Artie wants desperately to believe that Billy is OK. As a plane crashes on Coney Island, bombs go off in London, and New York is shaken out of the sense that the bad times have passed, Artie begins to wonder. Over four days in Manhattan and on Staten Island there are signs that Shank's family wants Billy locked up for good, and that Billy's mother doesn't want him coming home either. The bodies begin to appear and Artie, up against a brick wall of his own hope and despair, doesn't know what or whom to believe.

Reggie Nadelson has created in Artie Cohen one of mystery fiction's most interesting and complex characters: tough, unusually sensitive, deeply flawed and human.

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About the Author

A journalist and documentary filmmaker, Reggie Nadelson is the author of six previous Artie Cohen novels: Red Hook, Disturbed Earth, Red Hot Blues, Hot Poppies, Bloody London, and Sex Dolls. Comrade Rockstar, her biography of Dean Reed, the American émigré who became the biggest rock star in the Soviet Union, is under option to Tom Hanks. Born in Greenwich Village, Nadelson now lives in downtown Manhattan.

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. This gripping psychological whodunit, the concluding volume of Nadelson's post-9/11 trilogy (after 2006's Red Hook), presents a convincing portrait of New York City in the aftermath of the destruction of the Twin Towers. NYPD detective and Russian émigré Artie Cohen is adjusting to married life when he again becomes responsible for his troubled adolescent nephew, Billy Farone, recently released from juvie. As Billy's parents are abroad, Artie is left to watch over him and help monitor his adjustment to the outside world. When Cohen's boss, Sonny Lippert, gets a new lead in a very old child murder case, he attempts to drag Cohen away from Billy, with mixed success. Despite indications that Billy's criminal tendencies may not have abated, Cohen labors to defend him to others. The power of the ending will especially resonate for readers of the earlier volumes, but even newcomers will be impressed by the author's uncompromising vision of human frailty and the conflict between personal and professional duty. (Oct.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Walker Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0802715990
• ISBN 13: 9780802715999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352