Reed Farrel Coleman's Blog, page 6
February 3, 2017
Library Journal on WHAT YOU BREAK
Coleman’s second series outing (after Where It Hurts) is part police procedural, part human interest story, part philosophical monolog, and totally fun reading.
New York Times on WHAT YOU BREAK
I hereby crown Reed Farrel Coleman the king of Long Island noir for his wonderfully raw novels featuring Gus Murphy, an ex-cop who works security for the Paragon Hotel but mostly chauffeurs guests to and from MacArthur Airport.
The Real Book Spy on WHAT YOU BREAK
What You Break is vintage Reed Farrel Coleman, who continues to put out compelling crime novels year after year.
Literary Madness on WHAT YOU BREAK
This past weekend I read Where It Hurts and What You Break and not only are they extremely involved stories with several cogs and moving parts, but they serve to get you thinking about a number of issues that you are currently seeing in the evening news.
Crimespree Magazine on WHAT YOU BREAK
Once I started the adventure through Long Island with Gus in WHERE IT HURTS, I couldn’t wait to do it again. WHAT YOU BREAK did not disappoint.
December 23, 2016
A Private Investigator for Troubled Times: PW Talks with Reed Farrel Coleman
In Coleman’s ‘What You Break,’ Long Island hotel driver Gus Murphy, an ex-cop, struggles in the aftermath of his 20-year-old son’s death.
December 6, 2016
NPR’s Best Books of 2016
WHERE IT HURTS is on NPR’s Best Books of 2016 List!
Where It Hurts is the first in what promises to be a new, standout series by veteran mystery writer Reed Farrel Coleman. Coleman makes standard hard-boiled elements seem as fresh as a newly peroxided blonde. His main character, Gus Murphy, is yet another ex-cop who has been chewed up by life. Gus’ son dies, his marriage falls apart and he finds numbness — and a job — at the Paragon Hotel on New York’s Long Island. But it isn’t long before Gu...
November 9, 2016
October 26, 2016
Lincoln Journal-Star on DEBT TO PAY
This is another great adventure in one of the ongoing series that Robert B. Parker started and is being successfully continued by Reed Farrel Coleman. The characters are interesting, the dialogue is marvelous, and there’s enough action to keep readers turning the pages until past midnight.
October 24, 2016
Working Mother on CRIME + MUSIC
Another story by Reed Coleman is about a one-hit wonder and explores how organized crime is big part of the music industry. Look At Me/Don’t Look At Me has Terry James Lake as a folk/R & B singer. His manager, Carla Saroyan, sold his rights to some disdainful people and they required him to go on this disco dance show, lip singing his hit or there would be dire circumstances.
