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"Blood floats. It was the first thing I noticed that morning. It spread slowly outward over the water in the swimming pool uptown". So begins Reggie Nadelson's third Artie Cohen novel with the Russian/American private eye leaving a New York basking in an Indian summer for damp London as part of his investigation into the Manhattan murder of a rich Englishman. The body was found in the swimming pool of an exclusive apartment block. Russian gangsters are buying themselves respectability in the form of upper East Side apartments. Any connection? What do you think? The New York inhabited by the emigrant Russian community is vividly captured. London as seen by Artie is equally evocative. He arrives as the bonfires of November 5 light up the sky. He drinks champagne and goes to the Groucho Club. But "London is rough" and soon the river turns from a tourist attraction into an act of god as a Millennial flood threatens to engulf the city. Artie's job, his personal life and his family history become ever more entwined and when the conclusion ultimately comes it is both surprising and satisfying. "When I'm at a murder scene I like to think about in metaphors", mutters Artie. "It passes the time and keeps you sane". He said it. Bloody London has it all. History and geography. Liquid and solid. Life and death. --Nick Wroe
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"* Praise for Reggie Nadelson 'A writer who ranks alongside the best of Paretsky, and one who could easily inherit Cornwell's vacant crown.' Daily Express * Bloody London 'Superlative stortytelling, with writing so good that you hardly dare turn the page in case it goes off the boil. Rest assured, it doesn't... Disquieting, timely, terrific.' Literary Review * 'Artie Cohen is the latest in a long line of slick, wise-cracking American private eyes. A worthy sccessor to Raymond Chandler and Dalshiel Hammett, he is a Philip Marlowe for our times...Lesser thriller writers...waste pages reaching for the effects that Nadelson achieves in a couple of lines.' Daily Mail * 'Nadelson is a brilliant chronicler of post-communist Russia's shady exiles... A clever, exciting story, believable dialogue and thumping action.' The Times * Her style is one that shoots straight from the hip - full of slick one liners, cunning second guesses and characters who manage to be both mythic and credible.' Daily Express"
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
If you liked John Buchan and Ian Fleming you will like Reggie Nadelson's work. Unlike Buchan but like Fleming, the Artie Cohen series present a quick, absorbing and relaxing read. Unlike Fleming and like Buchan, the characterisation is carefully executed and multi-dimensional. Where Reggie Nadelson clears both into a cocked hat is the painterly like descriptive imagery of place whether it is the old muddy Thames or the glass and concrete ravines of NYC. The plotting is relevent and well placed in social and histroic context. I have no hesitation in placing five stars besides the the titles.
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publishers weekly starred review
10 Jan 2000
Format:Hardcover
Dear Amazon, I was disappointed to see that you had posted the netative Kirkus review, but not the very positive Starred Publishers Weekly which goes like this: "Red Mercury Blues and Hot Poppies, Nadelson's first two books about Russian-born New York cop Artie Cohen were colorful but basically conventional mysteries. In her third book (Bloody London) the author makes a major leap forward in scope and depth. The novel-a harrowing take on the sickness that seeped out of Russian following the collapse of communism and infected New York and London--offers a frightrening, apocalyptic vision of two cities drowning in success. Characters we've met before have grown and changed: Artie, still carrying several loads of immigrant baggage from his journey to Moscow to Israel to New York, is no longer a cop, but a PI, doing special jobs for a much subdued Sonny Lippert, his mentor, who's a federal prosecutor. Artie's lover, Lily Hanes, now the mother of an adopted chinese baby girl, is worried that Artie's current case--looking into a Russian connection to the murder of a wealthy and powerful Englishman who ruled his exclusive Sutton Place co-op with a ruthless hand-might stir up some old secrets of her own, especially about her ex-husband, who has found a way to profit from the homeless. And Tolya Sverdloff, Cohen's charming and connniving friend from the streets of Moscow and Brighton Beach, is now a high-flying player in some brutal financial games, worried enough to have a secret steel-walled safe room carved into his apartment. The scenes set in new York City are taut and sharply etched, but the novel really takes off--into Nathaniel West country--when Artie follows Lily to a a London ready to burst from catastrophic rains and the accumulated poisons of decades of official greed and neglect. This is a powerful portrait of cities and people, wobbling on the edge. (Publishers Weekly, November 22, l999) STARRED REVIEW. I would be delighted if you would post this and perhaps take out the Kirkus.
A New Queen Of Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction
26 Nov 2000
Format:Hardcover
Reggie Nadelson's latest brings back her Russian/American hero Artie Cohen as a private eye. Artie is worldly-wise, soulful, and not above making up the rules as he goes along. Nadelson's New York and London are pitch-perfect, her plot appropriately labyrinthine, and her best heroines are at once beautiful, wised-up, willful, and--intriguingly--over 40. If you like intelligently written mysteries that keep one eye on the headlines--Michael Connelly comes to mind--you're going to love this.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Entertaining Artie Cohen mystery
16 Jan 2000
Format:Hardcover
Former Russian citizen, Artie Cohen left NYPD to become a private investigator. Much of his work comes from Sonny Lippert, who asks Artie to investigate a Manhattan murder of a British expatriate Tommy Pascoe. The assailant tried to remove the victim's head before leaving the deceased to swim in an exclusive Sutton Place pool.
Artie begins to investigate the murder and soon finds a Russian connection that sends the sleuth into Brooklyn. Other killings follow and lead Artie to London where the city seems on the verge of annihilation or exhilaration depending on where you sit in the food chain.
BLOODY LONDON, the third Artie Cohen mystery is a puissant tale that focuses on the decade-old aftermath of the collapse of Communism on New York and London. Artie remains a charming but wild mix while his girlfriend Lily seems stronger than previously depicted. The who-done-it is entertaining as Artie falls in love with the decadent, exciting, and pendulum-like swinging London. Though Reggie Nadelson makes Artie seem too lyrical at times, this doesn't prevent fans or readers new to this exciting series (see RED HOT BLUES and HOT POPPIES) from enjoying the maturing of the characters as the tale twists into new areas.
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