Red Hook [Hardcover]

"* 'A writer who ranks alongside the best of Paretsky, and one who could easily inherit Cornwell's vacant crown.' Daily Express * 'Artie Cohen is the detective New York deserves: smart, wounded, emotional, haunted, and not as tough as he thinks. Reggle Nadelson's Cohen books get better and better.' Salman Rushdie * 'Cohen is a brilliant creation.... [Nadelson's] writing is strikingly confident, with barely a word out of place' Joan Smith in the Sunday Times * 'If this book doesn't wring out your guts with anxiety, you are made of stone. Reggle Nadelson knows how to raise the hair on your arms, and she does it with the authority and sureness of a natural born writer' Guardian" --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Reggie Nadelson's stunning new Artie Cohen novel, set in a New York haunted by the fear of further terrorist attack.

'You won't sleep until you've turned the last page' Guardian

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Jack Santiago is famous for his investigative stories, for his ability to get under the skin of the rich and famous - and for his reporting on nuclear terrorism in New York. New York, he insists, is on the verge of an attack, an attack by nuclear materials, an attack so sudden and secret that none of the preparations will make any difference. He's obsessed with suitcase nukes, with tiny weapons concealed in bags, easily carried into the city. With the fact that 100,000 people will die of nuclear poisoning. The only problem with Santiago is that he is dead. The other problem is that he made up the stories. It is the night of the August 2003 blackout when Santiago is killed. August 14, when the lights go out up and down the US East Coast. And also the night that Artie Cohen, forever single, still regretting the loss of Lily Hanes who has left him, gets married to Maxine Crabbe. He wants a life, kids, a home; with Maxie, he's convinced himself, he can find it. Santiago's death reveals a history of lies, deceit and falsified stories; Santiago has made up everything, including much of his own life. And in the course of uncovering who killed him, Artie also uncovers the ways in which information is corrupted and turned into propaganda...And then Lily returns...

Reggie Nadelson's stunning new Artie Cohen novel, set in a New York haunted by the fear of further terrorist attack.

'You won't sleep until you've turned the last page' Guardian --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

'Ah, the Artie Cohen novels of Reggie Nadelson! Readers are always assured of a sardonic, fast-moving read in these highly diverting...books... As ever with Nadelson, its the adroit juggling of the personal and plotting elements of her books that is so consistently successful.' Good Book Guide

It's a late summer Sunday in downtown New York City, and Artie Cohen is getting married. Watching the sun rising over the East River, he's content.

A message comes in from an old friend, Sid McKay, asking Artie to come out to Red Hook in Brooklyn. It's his wedding day, but Artie owes Sid, so he goes.

On arriving he finds a dead man spreadeagled in the water off the old docks. When Sid eventually shows up, he's scared, edgy and evasive, Artie suspects he's holding something back.

Even at his own wedding party, later that day, Artie can't stop thinking about Sid. Why has the death of a vagrant spooked him so much? It's not his case, but the more he digs, the more it drags him in, implicating - and threatening - his closest friends...

'The storylines in Reggie Nadelson's harrowing novel bleed painfully into each other, linked by a strain of jumpy, running-scared dialogue which holds the action together like static. There's no mistaking that the times are bad and Nadelson brilliantly sets down the fevers and woes of our latest age of anxiety. Its rare that crime writing should so passionately and precisely examine its own time. Its also reassuring to find a writer who is so magnificently up to the job.' Literary Review

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

A journalist and documentary film maker, Reggie Nadelson is a New Yorker who also makes her home in London. She is the author of five novels featuring the detective Artie Cohen ('the detective every woman would like to find in her bed' Guardian): Hot Poppies, Red Mercury Blues, Sex Dolls, Bloody London and Disturbed Earth. Her non-fiction book Comrade Rockstar, the story of the American emigre who became the biggest rock star in the history of the Soviet Union, is to be made into a film starring Tom Hanks.