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Moe Prager #8
Onion Street
A Moe Prager Mystery It's 1967 and Moe Prager is wandering aimlessly through his college career and his life. All that changes when his girlfriend Mindy is viciously beaten into a coma and left to die on the snow-covered streets of Brooklyn. Suddenly, Moe has purpose. He is determined to find out who's done this to Mindy and why. But Mindy is not the only person in Moe's life who's in danger. Someone is also trying to kill his best and oldest friend, Bobby Friedman.
Things get really strange when Moe enlists the aid of Lids, a half-cracked genius drug pusher from the old neighborhood. Lids hooks Moe up with his first solid information. Problem is, the info seems to take Moe in five directions at once and leads to more questions than answers. How is a bitter old camp survivor connected to the dead man in the apartment above his fixit shop, or to the OD-ed junkie found on the boardwalk in Coney Island? What could an underground radical group have to do with the local Mafioso capo? And where do Mindy and Bobby fit into any of this?
Moe will risk everything to find the answers. He will travel from the pot-holed pavement of Brighton Beach to the Pocono Mountains to the runways at Kennedy Airport. But no matter how far he goes or how fast he gets there, all roads lead to Onion Street.
Things get really strange when Moe enlists the aid of Lids, a half-cracked genius drug pusher from the old neighborhood. Lids hooks Moe up with his first solid information. Problem is, the info seems to take Moe in five directions at once and leads to more questions than answers. How is a bitter old camp survivor connected to the dead man in the apartment above his fixit shop, or to the OD-ed junkie found on the boardwalk in Coney Island? What could an underground radical group have to do with the local Mafioso capo? And where do Mindy and Bobby fit into any of this?
Moe will risk everything to find the answers. He will travel from the pot-holed pavement of Brighton Beach to the Pocono Mountains to the runways at Kennedy Airport. But no matter how far he goes or how fast he gets there, all roads lead to Onion Street.
320 pages, Paperback
First published April 18, 2013
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About the author
Reed Farrel Coleman
166 books749 followersaka Tony Spinosa
Reed Farrel Coleman’s love of storytelling originated on the streets of Brooklyn and was nurtured by his teachers, friends, and family.
A New York Times bestseller called a hard-boiled poet by NPR’s Maureen Corrigan and the “noir poet laureate” in the Huffington Post, Reed is the author of novels, including Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone series, the acclaimed Moe Prager series, short stories, and poetry.
Reed is a three-time Edgar Award nominee in three different categories—Best Novel, Best Paperback Original, Best Short Story—and a three-time recipient of the Shamus Award for Best PI Novel of the Year. He has also won the Audie, Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Awards.
A former executive vice president of Mystery Writers of America, Reed is an adjunct instructor of English at Hofstra University and a founding member of MWA University. Brooklyn born and raised, he now lives with his family–including cats Cleo and Knish–in Suffolk County on Long Island.
Reed Farrel Coleman’s love of storytelling originated on the streets of Brooklyn and was nurtured by his teachers, friends, and family.
A New York Times bestseller called a hard-boiled poet by NPR’s Maureen Corrigan and the “noir poet laureate” in the Huffington Post, Reed is the author of novels, including Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone series, the acclaimed Moe Prager series, short stories, and poetry.
Reed is a three-time Edgar Award nominee in three different categories—Best Novel, Best Paperback Original, Best Short Story—and a three-time recipient of the Shamus Award for Best PI Novel of the Year. He has also won the Audie, Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Awards.
A former executive vice president of Mystery Writers of America, Reed is an adjunct instructor of English at Hofstra University and a founding member of MWA University. Brooklyn born and raised, he now lives with his family–including cats Cleo and Knish–in Suffolk County on Long Island.
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May 18, 2013
I feel like I got on the wrong bus, got off at the wrong stop, sat in the wrong Sunday school class, and then raised my hand with the wrong answer to a gimme question. If this were a fishing expedition, I somehow ended up on the wrong pier, in the wrong state, with the wrong lure, and I’d even forgotten my damn hat (the fedora that I keep handy for emergency purposes).
I’d really prefer not piss off a slew of Reed Farrel Coleman fans and have them banging on my doorstep at all hours of the day or night, but I also can’t inflate my rating for a book that I didn’t enjoy. So, if you insist on paying me a visit, you’re welcome to visit me at my winter home in North Pole, Alaska.
Mr. Coleman sure has his literary credentials in order. And he has more starred reviews than Britney Spears has pairs of underwear.
But reading this book reminded me of a one-man missile operator. The clichés seemed to attack me every few pages; the dialogue seemed a bit trite and stilted; the pages moved at a glacier’s pace; and I found myself plugging toothpicks in my eyes to continue reading. As I waited for someone to push the giant red button, I ended up off-roading more than I stayed on the asphalt.
I did, however, enjoy the premise: an amateur sleuth working on his college education, investigating the attempted demise of his love interest. And the voice did make me want to break out my fedora on occasion, but I often, and just as quickly, wanted to shove it back in the closet and slam the door.
Most people enjoy the Moe Prager novels, and you might as well, but I just wasn’t one of them.
I received this book for free through NetGalley.
I’d really prefer not piss off a slew of Reed Farrel Coleman fans and have them banging on my doorstep at all hours of the day or night, but I also can’t inflate my rating for a book that I didn’t enjoy. So, if you insist on paying me a visit, you’re welcome to visit me at my winter home in North Pole, Alaska.
Mr. Coleman sure has his literary credentials in order. And he has more starred reviews than Britney Spears has pairs of underwear.
But reading this book reminded me of a one-man missile operator. The clichés seemed to attack me every few pages; the dialogue seemed a bit trite and stilted; the pages moved at a glacier’s pace; and I found myself plugging toothpicks in my eyes to continue reading. As I waited for someone to push the giant red button, I ended up off-roading more than I stayed on the asphalt.
I did, however, enjoy the premise: an amateur sleuth working on his college education, investigating the attempted demise of his love interest. And the voice did make me want to break out my fedora on occasion, but I often, and just as quickly, wanted to shove it back in the closet and slam the door.
Most people enjoy the Moe Prager novels, and you might as well, but I just wasn’t one of them.
I received this book for free through NetGalley.
April 17, 2013
"Onion Street" by Reed Farrel Coleman should be on everyone's TBR list. Or they should have already read it.
It has been a tremendous pleasure to travel through the life, career, highs and lows of Moe Prager. We have watched his daughter grow to an adult, been through romances, seen more wine stores open, solved lots of crime and had many glasses of wine with him.
"Onion Street" is a journey back to Moe's youth, before his tragedy with the xerox paper, before becoming a cop, before leaving home.
And a wonderfully depicted, poetically told story do we receive. Moe is in drifting through college, still trying to find path, when his girlfriend, Mindy, is savagely beaten into a coma. Moe becomes focused on finding the attacker. His search will lead him to an apartment above a fixup shop, the boardwalk on Coney Island, and back in touch with an old school friend who is part genius school dropout/part drug user-dealer. Along with Mindy, his and his best friend, Bobby Friedman's lives are endangered as they hunt for the attacker. But all roads lead back to Onion Street.
Told by the great poet, and master of language, Reed Farrel Coleman. This is a must read.
It has been a tremendous pleasure to travel through the life, career, highs and lows of Moe Prager. We have watched his daughter grow to an adult, been through romances, seen more wine stores open, solved lots of crime and had many glasses of wine with him.
"Onion Street" is a journey back to Moe's youth, before his tragedy with the xerox paper, before becoming a cop, before leaving home.
And a wonderfully depicted, poetically told story do we receive. Moe is in drifting through college, still trying to find path, when his girlfriend, Mindy, is savagely beaten into a coma. Moe becomes focused on finding the attacker. His search will lead him to an apartment above a fixup shop, the boardwalk on Coney Island, and back in touch with an old school friend who is part genius school dropout/part drug user-dealer. Along with Mindy, his and his best friend, Bobby Friedman's lives are endangered as they hunt for the attacker. But all roads lead back to Onion Street.
Told by the great poet, and master of language, Reed Farrel Coleman. This is a must read.
May 4, 2013
In this eighth mystery featuring former Brooklyn policeman and present-day PI, Moe Prager, the author takes the reader by the hand and goes back in time.
Attending a funeral held in 2012, Moe starts to reminisce about the history that he shared with the dead man, Bobby Friedman. The remembrances date back to the year 1967, when Moe was in college and his girlfriend, Mindy, was attacked on the street and beaten into a coma. When Moe’s good friend Bobby also loses his girlfriend - Samantha Hope - in a car explosion on Coney Island, things get even more insane.
The explosion ends the life of one other person, Martin Levitz, who is a student at Brooklyn College with Samantha. The key factor suddenly becomes the fact that both he and Sam were well-known radicals with the antiwar movement on campus.
The theory put out by the authorities is that a bomb went off too soon; a bomb that was meant to blow up a draft board office. This is one theory, but Bobby and Moe are sure that something else is going on and that the police simply don’t care enough to investigate. Soon after the explosion, Moe is able to save Bobby from getting hit by a speeding car, and he begins to delve deeper into the case, through the misinformation and lies in order to get to the truth.
With this prequel, the author is catching readers up with what happened to Moe early on, and all the factors that turned Moe to a life of crime fighting. This book is a fascinating read that could easily be finished in one-day considering the fast-pace and riveting scenes. If you haven’t read the other books, this one will immediately have you running out to get the others.
A dyed-in-the-wool mystery reader will eat this up and make them smile, knowing that there is far more to come from Moe Prager!
Attending a funeral held in 2012, Moe starts to reminisce about the history that he shared with the dead man, Bobby Friedman. The remembrances date back to the year 1967, when Moe was in college and his girlfriend, Mindy, was attacked on the street and beaten into a coma. When Moe’s good friend Bobby also loses his girlfriend - Samantha Hope - in a car explosion on Coney Island, things get even more insane.
The explosion ends the life of one other person, Martin Levitz, who is a student at Brooklyn College with Samantha. The key factor suddenly becomes the fact that both he and Sam were well-known radicals with the antiwar movement on campus.
The theory put out by the authorities is that a bomb went off too soon; a bomb that was meant to blow up a draft board office. This is one theory, but Bobby and Moe are sure that something else is going on and that the police simply don’t care enough to investigate. Soon after the explosion, Moe is able to save Bobby from getting hit by a speeding car, and he begins to delve deeper into the case, through the misinformation and lies in order to get to the truth.
With this prequel, the author is catching readers up with what happened to Moe early on, and all the factors that turned Moe to a life of crime fighting. This book is a fascinating read that could easily be finished in one-day considering the fast-pace and riveting scenes. If you haven’t read the other books, this one will immediately have you running out to get the others.
A dyed-in-the-wool mystery reader will eat this up and make them smile, knowing that there is far more to come from Moe Prager!
February 11, 2015
I love the Moe Prager series. The author says this will be the penultimate adventure, which is a real pity as it'll be like losing an old friend. This book is of the same high standard as the rest of the series; a great read.
February 22, 2016
I am a huge fan of this series by Reed Farrel Coleman. These gritty novels follow the life of former NYPD-turned PI Moe Prager through a number of cases, romances, marriages, tumultuous relationships with his brother and his daughter, and ultimately with himself. Onion Street is a prequel of sorts to the rest of the series. After attending the funeral of his childhood friend, Bobby Friedman, Moe relates the story of his youth to his daughter, detailing the series of events that led him to a life as a detective.
The story he tells takes place in 1967 Brooklyn with Moe as a directionless college student, wandering through his days. That all changes when his girlfriend is mugged, ending up in a coma, and it becomes apparent that Bobby’s life is also in danger. Enlisting his friend Lids (a drug-dealing genius who has suffered a nervous breakdown), Moe sets out to find out what’s behind these attacks. His inquiries will take him to a run-down appliance store, the airport, Brighton Beach, and the Catskills. Along the way to discovering the truth Moe encounters grieving parents, radical college students, mobsters, Holocaust survivors, drug addicts, and police detectives.
I have been waiting for the next Moe Prager novel for a long time and Onion Street did not disappoint. The descriptions of 1967 Brooklyn are dirty, dusty, dangerous, adding to the grittiness of the story. As with all of the Moe Prager novels, as in life, people are not always who you thought they were, right and wrong are not easy to discern, the answers do not come easily. It is a world of gray.
“No, this was Brooklyn. We liked our scars. We wore our failures with pride. We lived in a world of what used to be and what would be no more.”
See more on my blog at www.watchingthewords.com!
The story he tells takes place in 1967 Brooklyn with Moe as a directionless college student, wandering through his days. That all changes when his girlfriend is mugged, ending up in a coma, and it becomes apparent that Bobby’s life is also in danger. Enlisting his friend Lids (a drug-dealing genius who has suffered a nervous breakdown), Moe sets out to find out what’s behind these attacks. His inquiries will take him to a run-down appliance store, the airport, Brighton Beach, and the Catskills. Along the way to discovering the truth Moe encounters grieving parents, radical college students, mobsters, Holocaust survivors, drug addicts, and police detectives.
I have been waiting for the next Moe Prager novel for a long time and Onion Street did not disappoint. The descriptions of 1967 Brooklyn are dirty, dusty, dangerous, adding to the grittiness of the story. As with all of the Moe Prager novels, as in life, people are not always who you thought they were, right and wrong are not easy to discern, the answers do not come easily. It is a world of gray.
“No, this was Brooklyn. We liked our scars. We wore our failures with pride. We lived in a world of what used to be and what would be no more.”
See more on my blog at www.watchingthewords.com!
June 19, 2013
As a First Reads Winner I received my copy of Onion Street: A Moe Prager Mystery. I did not know it was part of a series, regardless the book stands well alone and I am intrigued to read the other books.
Coleman wrote an amazing coming-of-age story, truly depicting the confusion and wandering of a young adult trying to find his way. By isolating Moe and forcing him to figure out bits and parts of the the events surrounding Mindy's accident, Coleman portrays the true strength of character Moe has. The images and places mentioned around Brooklyn and NYC during the 60s was authentic and showed how Brooklyn got its reputation. I enjoyed this book a lot and would recommend it to anyone interested in a mystery entangled with radical politics, dead bodies, and an inter-connection of all the facts.
Coleman wrote an amazing coming-of-age story, truly depicting the confusion and wandering of a young adult trying to find his way. By isolating Moe and forcing him to figure out bits and parts of the the events surrounding Mindy's accident, Coleman portrays the true strength of character Moe has. The images and places mentioned around Brooklyn and NYC during the 60s was authentic and showed how Brooklyn got its reputation. I enjoyed this book a lot and would recommend it to anyone interested in a mystery entangled with radical politics, dead bodies, and an inter-connection of all the facts.
May 30, 2013
When an author creates a character capable of successfully pulling in an audience through several follow-ups, the saddest day for the reader is when the final book hits the shelves.
The protagonist is usually older, wiser, has a lot of scars and baggage that have made his journey more interesting. He's also come close to the point where he has done pretty much everything the author set out for him to do.
That's why it is so refreshing to have a peek into the past of an interesting character like Moe Prager. You not only get a fresh story from the character's past; you get some well thought out insight behind his motivation.
Add to that the flowing prose of a seasoned author and you get a fast paced novel that is almost impossible to put down.
The protagonist is usually older, wiser, has a lot of scars and baggage that have made his journey more interesting. He's also come close to the point where he has done pretty much everything the author set out for him to do.
That's why it is so refreshing to have a peek into the past of an interesting character like Moe Prager. You not only get a fresh story from the character's past; you get some well thought out insight behind his motivation.
Add to that the flowing prose of a seasoned author and you get a fast paced novel that is almost impossible to put down.
March 13, 2015
Such a satisfying read. The word "noir" is used a lot to describe Coleman's mysteries, but it's not quite right; the Brooklyn inhabited by his protagonist Moe Prager isn't a corrupt nightmarish hellscape, but rather a lived-in, multi-faceted, sometimes heartbreaking place where people make daily compromises, most small, some big enough to define their lives. In Onion Street, Moe looks back to his college years in the late Sixties and the events which led him to go from an aimless young adult to a prospective cop (and eventually a PI). The more remote neighborhoods of Brooklyn--Coney Island, Brighton Beach, and Gravesend--are evoked with a richness and immediacy, and ethnic mix of New York and the radical student activism of the period give this mystery something extra.
March 11, 2013
What a fantastic and well written prequel to Reed Farrel Coleman's Moe Prager series. If you haven't read any of the series yet, you can certainly start with ONION STREET and then go back to the rest of the series in chronological order. Coleman spins his tale with dark humor, the palpable setting of Brooklyn in the 1960s and he knows how to keeps your attention from start to finish. Very highly recommended!
March 12, 2013
This is one of the best mysteries I have read in a very long time. I was so proud of myself for figuring out a key point/clue in the story early on but there was so much to this story that keep me clueless until the last page. This was a mile-a-minute thriller. Mr. Coleman is very good at detail without boring reader. I think I just found a new favorite author!
May 29, 2013
Coleman's Moe Prager series is one of the best mystery series currently written. His books are intricately plotted and character driven. Onion Street is the prequel to the series and from the moment I picked it up, I was immersed in the time and place. If you like intelligent mysteries, read this.
May 27, 2013
Coleman writes a great series , he can with just a few words describe vividly a scene or a place , living on long island where he has some of his scenes set I know exactly where they occur ! Just a terrific series , must must must be read in order , there is an event in the first book that resonates throughout the series .
January 27, 2019
Onion Street - Fun in a retrospective way
I think this is one of the best in the Moe Praeger series; I thought with Prager’s physical condition it would be depressing and was pleasantly surprised at the backwards look of Brooklyn in the late 60’s / early 70’s. It has a solid ring of authenticity, and is a good mystery.
I think this is one of the best in the Moe Praeger series; I thought with Prager’s physical condition it would be depressing and was pleasantly surprised at the backwards look of Brooklyn in the late 60’s / early 70’s. It has a solid ring of authenticity, and is a good mystery.
July 2, 2013
Loved it. Can't get enough Moe.
November 22, 2019
Every book is a classic and Moe Prager is awesome!!
November 14, 2018
*During the last few books of the series, I've noticed less of the voice of Moe Prager that so drew me to the series in the first place. It's back in this one, and I am delighted. Of course, it's set in the past when Moe when was a young man, so maybe age diminished and awful experience diminished his wry sense of humor and way with descriptive language.
"...and thought I was very badly in need of my own white whale. I needed to chase something in my life other thanMindy's ass" (40).
"...getting dressed went about as smoothly as a thumbless man tying his shoes" (40).
"...whatever it was knocked the wind so far out of me it felt like I would have to go to the Bronx to retrieve it" (82).
"She had a good thirty pounds on me. Well, maybe not so good" (209).
"The barman looked about as pleased as a fifteen-year-old kid late to his own circumcision" (209).
"If fly heaven was a garbage heap, I thought, fly hell must be an endless series of front windows" (214).
"For the second time that day I got lightheaded, but this time it wasn't from watching a bug crawl out of a dead man's nose" (272). *An improvement?
"...and thought I was very badly in need of my own white whale. I needed to chase something in my life other thanMindy's ass" (40).
"...getting dressed went about as smoothly as a thumbless man tying his shoes" (40).
"...whatever it was knocked the wind so far out of me it felt like I would have to go to the Bronx to retrieve it" (82).
"She had a good thirty pounds on me. Well, maybe not so good" (209).
"The barman looked about as pleased as a fifteen-year-old kid late to his own circumcision" (209).
"If fly heaven was a garbage heap, I thought, fly hell must be an endless series of front windows" (214).
"For the second time that day I got lightheaded, but this time it wasn't from watching a bug crawl out of a dead man's nose" (272). *An improvement?
December 29, 2022
ONION STREET is a superb read; an engrossing, truly entertaining tale. The novel’s protagonist, a young college student in the 1960s, manages to dig himself deeper and deeper into danger and mystery with every step he takes as he works to determine who beat up his girlfriend—and why—so severely she ended up in a coma.
Reed Farrel Coleman fleshes out his story with a cast of wonderful, colorful, and fully believable Damon Runyonesque characters from Brooklyn. He fills his drama with more twists and turns than a street vendor’s pretzel, while his poetic prose carries the reader through the tale with the swift smoothness of a New York Knicks’ fast break.
Although this is the eighth book in Coleman’s nine-book Moe Prager series, it really is a sort of prologue to the lineup, since it details how Moe stumbles his way into becoming a cop. If you’re looking for a really good mystery, or heck, just a really good read, ONION STREET is it.
Reed Farrel Coleman fleshes out his story with a cast of wonderful, colorful, and fully believable Damon Runyonesque characters from Brooklyn. He fills his drama with more twists and turns than a street vendor’s pretzel, while his poetic prose carries the reader through the tale with the swift smoothness of a New York Knicks’ fast break.
Although this is the eighth book in Coleman’s nine-book Moe Prager series, it really is a sort of prologue to the lineup, since it details how Moe stumbles his way into becoming a cop. If you’re looking for a really good mystery, or heck, just a really good read, ONION STREET is it.
February 16, 2022
I picked this book up from a library sale, totally based on the cover and name. I didn’t realize they were part of a series centered on Moe Prager, a Brooklyn born detective. I may have given it more stars if i had a connection with the character. This book told the story of how Moe became a detective but i found it a little slow.
My parents being born in Brooklyn, i have a strong connection to the scenery in this book. Even though i was born and raised on Long Island, everyone knows how things work in Brooklyn. The el, the pizzerias, double parking and JFK airport all made me feel like i was listening to my parents childhood stories. Wasn’t a fan of the plot but loved the world building!
My parents being born in Brooklyn, i have a strong connection to the scenery in this book. Even though i was born and raised on Long Island, everyone knows how things work in Brooklyn. The el, the pizzerias, double parking and JFK airport all made me feel like i was listening to my parents childhood stories. Wasn’t a fan of the plot but loved the world building!
June 19, 2020
His friend Bobby's funeral brings up memories of volatile 1967 Brooklyn for Moe Prager. A student at Brooklyn College, Moe is worried about Bobby Friedman's possible connections to a radical political group. Moe feels uneasy enough about Bobby's safety to keep an eye on him, actually saving Bobby when he is almost killed in a hit and run. When Moe's girlfriend, Mindy, is beaten into a coma, he goes vigilante against an enemy he doesn't understand. Moe is forced to make an ally with an unexpected source, a drug dealer named Lids, if he hopes to survive.
May 14, 2023
Moe Prager tells his daughter the story of his first experience with crime, life and death danger, and solving mysteries while he was a student at Brooklyn College in 1967. The story is propulsive, the characters are colorful (Jimmy Ding Dong), and the usual questions in these books of what is going on and what are the real backgrounds of the people involved in the story. Plus the mention of so many places familiar to me including targeting the 61st precinct house on Avenue U. The penultimate book in this fine series is possibly the best one.
March 19, 2024
I picked this book up at the library because the cover caught my eye. I am not a fan of these kinds of mysteries but this book was very absorbing. I originally put it on my bedside table to read before I turned off my light at night but it is certainly not a restful book. Moe, the main character, came of age in Brooklyn. I've never been to that part of NYC but Mr. Coleman's descriptives do paint enthralling pictures. A lot of this was unexpected and although as I said, I started out reading it just before bed, I finished it this afternoon, sitting on the edge of my chair.
July 28, 2018
t's 1967 and Moe Prager is wandering aimlessly through his college career and his life. All that changes when his girlfriend Mindy is viciously beaten into a coma and left to die on the snow-covered streets of Brooklyn. Suddenly, Moe has purpose. He is determined to find out who's done this to Mindy and why. But Mindy is not the only person in Moe's life who's in danger. Someone is also trying to kill his best and oldest friend, Bobby Friedman.
January 13, 2023
This is the book that explains how Moe Prager decided to join the police force. His skill in figuring out this first mystery, while he’s in college, transforms his outlook on the police and other humans. He gleans that no one can be trusted. His friends and even their families are involved and people die. I plan to read more Reed Farrel Coleman.
November 22, 2019
This guy is a terrific author - I don’t know why he put on the mantle of Robert B Parker and tried to continue the Jesse Stone series. He is much better with his own Moe Prager. Ya gotta love Moe and this was a great story of how he became a cop. Will definitely read the whole series.
September 14, 2020
What a ride! I whirled through all the Moe Prager books back in 2012, and only just discovered that there were two I'd never read! Love the humor, the Jewish Brooklyn references, the complexity of the story. A real treat!
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April 20, 2022Nothing revolutionary (even if that is a theme in the book) but an entertaining crime novel. The biggest strength is the fondness the reader has for the main character though that has developed over the course of the series.
January 4, 2025
The writing is incredible. The meshing of poetic verse and Brooklynese is brilliant. The plot doesn’t stand up to much scrutiny, but then Raymond Chandler’s classic detective novels don’t either. Highly recommended to lovers of crime fiction.
January 8, 2020
Going back in time - I would go anywhere and anytime with Moe.
February 9, 2022
How Mo became a cop. Cool prequel from a great writer. Get to know Mo Prager. Remember to shop your local bookstores. They need your support.
January 29, 2023
Of all Reed Coleman's characters, Moe Prager is my favorite. This is the 8th book in the series and, to me, the best so far. There is only 1 book left and I'm already sad there's no more.
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