Jersey Tomatoes

Malone Thriller #1

by J.W. Rider

An iconoclastic private investigator--a one-time FBI agent and seminarian--confronts murder, fear, and fake suicide inside a Jersey City real estate war over the gentrification of a mobster's waterfront, which is being transformed into a miracle mile

273 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1986

About the author

A pseudonym used by Shane Stevens

Reviews

[Donald · Rating 4 out of 5]

opening line - "When they sank the Holland Tunnel eighty feet into the Hudson River back in 1926, everybody saw a golden age for New York and Jersey City on opposite ends." 4th and 5th line - "What happened was New York got all the gold and left Jersey City only the age. It just got older."

Well, those lines sank me right in to this book! And the crisp banter between Cooper and Jarrett immediately following had me hooked hard! Really, the dialogue throughout was just superb and the highlight of the book! A detective novel, rat-a-tat-tat dialogue, and Jersey - what more could a guy like me ask for?

"Jersey tomatoes was mob talk for dynamite...", Christians Anonymous, and homosexual hitmen, make this a book to add to your must read list!

[Jack Heath]

Synopsis: Shane Stevens's hard hitting crime novel brings the New Jersey mob to the forefront. PI Ryder Malone is at his witty best.

[George Bachman · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent, crackling hardboiled thriller, well-worth a read, especially for Shane Stevens completists.

[SnobMaynard · Rating 4 out of 5]

aside from a rather mediocre ending, this was extremely entertaining. Malone rocks!

[patty · Rating 3 out of 5]

Shane Stevens writing as J.W. Rider. The dialogue between characters was often funny, not to mention the one-liners. But this is a crime/mystery story, that seemed as dated as this book.