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Where It Hurts
  • Published: 26 January 2016
  • ISBN: 9780698184091
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

Where It Hurts

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26 Jan 2016
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1 June 2017
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Nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel

From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author comes a gritty, atmospheric new series about the other side of Long Island, far from the wealth of the Hamptons, where real people live—and die. 
 
Gus Murphy thought he had the world all figured out. A retired Suffolk County cop, Gus had everything a man could want: a great marriage, two kids, a nice house, and the rest of his life ahead of him. But when tragedy strikes, his life is thrown into complete disarray. In the course of a single deadly moment, his family is blown apart and he is transformed from a man who believes he understands everything into a man who understands nothing.

Divorced and working as a courtesy van driver for the run-down hotel in which he has a room, Gus has settled into a mindless, soulless routine that barely keeps his grief at arm’s length. But Gus’s comfortable waking trance comes to an end when ex-con Tommy Delcamino asks him for help. Four months earlier, Tommy’s son T.J.’s battered body was discovered in a wooded lot, yet the Suffolk County PD doesn’t seem interested in pursuing the killers. In desperation, Tommy seeks out the only cop he ever trusted—Gus Murphy.

Gus reluctantly agrees to see what he can uncover. As he begins to sweep away the layers of dust that have collected over the case during the intervening months, Gus finds that Tommy was telling the truth. It seems that everyone involved with the late T.J Delcamino—from his best friend, to a gang enforcer, to a mafia capo, and even the police—has something to hide, and all are willing to go to extreme lengths to keep it hidden. It’s a dangerous favor Gus has taken on as he claws his way back to take a place among the living, while searching through the sewers for a killer.
  • Published: 26 January 2016
  • ISBN: 9780698184091
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368
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Praise for Where It Hurts

Praise for REED FARREL COLEMAN'S Other Books

"[An] intelligent, literary series by a fine writer who has made his reputation both as a mystery writer and a poet."-- Associated Press

"Among the undying conventions of detective fiction is the one that requires every retired cop to have a case that still haunts him. Reed Farrel Coleman blows the dust off that cliche in Walking the Perfect Square with a mystery that would get under anyone's skin." -- Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

"Reed Farrel Coleman is one of the more original voices to emerge from the crime fiction field in the last ten years. For the uninitiated, Walking the Perfect Square is the place to start." -- George Pelecanos, best-selling author of The Way Home

"Reed Farrel Coleman makes claim to a unique corner of the private detective genre."--Michael Connelly, New York Times-bestselling author

"In Reed Farrel Coleman's hands, the Moe Prager novels are one of the great series in PI literature."-- Dennis Lehane bestselling author of A Drink Before The War

"Razor-edged contemporary whodunits don't get much better than Shamus-winner Coleman's seventh Moe Prager mystery."--Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review

Praise for Reed Farrel Coleman's Other Books

"[An] intelligent, literary series by a fine writer who has made his reputation both as a mystery writer and a poet." --Associated Press

"Among the undying conventions of detective fiction is the one that requires every retired cop to have a case that still haunts him. Reed Farrel Coleman blows the dust off that cliché in Walking the Perfect Square with a mystery that would get under anyone's skin." --Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

"Reed Farrel Coleman is one of the more original voices to emerge from the crime fiction field in the last ten years. For the uninitiated, Walking the Perfect Square is the place to start." --George Pelecanos, bestselling author of The Way Home

"Reed Farrel Coleman makes claim to a unique corner of the private detective genre." --Michael Connelly, New York Timesbestselling author

"In Reed Farrel Coleman's hands, the Moe Prager novels are one of the great series in PI literature." --Dennis Lehane, bestselling author of A Drink Before the War

"Razor-edged contemporary whodunits don't get much better than Shamus winner Coleman's seventh Moe Prager mystery." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)