Reed Farrel Coleman





Reed Farrel Coleman

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aka Tony Spinosa

Reed Farrel Coleman, former Executive Vice President of Mystery Writers of America, was Brooklyn born and raised. He is the author of ten novels in three series published under his name and his pen name Tony Spinosa. His sixth novel, The James Deans, won the Shamus, Barry, and Anthony Awards. The novel was further nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, and Gumshoe Awards. Reed is also a published poet, and for several years was a co-editor of the journal Poetry Bone. He was the editor of the short story anthology Hard-boiled Brooklyn. His short stories and essays appear in Wall Street Noir, Mystery Readers Journal, Damn Near Dead, Brooklyn Noir 3, Expletive Deleted, These Guns for Hire, Crime Spree Magazine and several other pub...more


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“Mastermind” by Reed Farrel Coleman appears in Long Island Noir, an anthology of short stories set in Nassau and Suffok counties of New York, recently released by Akashic Books:




Jeff Ziegfeld was always the exception to the rule: the dumb Jew, the blue-collar Jew, the tough Jew. No matter the Zen of the ethnic group the wheel of fortune got you born into, dumb and poor was the universal for...

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Walking the Perfect Square
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 301 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
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The James Deans
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions
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Redemption Street
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
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Innocent Monster
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
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Soul Patch
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 96 ratings6 editions
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Hurt Machine
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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Empty Ever After
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
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3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Hard Boiled Brooklyn: 17 Am...
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2006
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Little Easter
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions
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“When cops are on the job they love lawyers like lions love hyenas, only minus the mutual respect.”
Reed Farrel Coleman, The James Deans

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