SOUL PATCH In this darkly intriguing follow-up to the Shamus and Barry winning The James Deans, ex-NYPD cop turned P.I. and entrepreneur, Moe Prager is faced with a gut-wrenching case. The apparent suicide of his old friend and NYPD Chief of Detectives, Larry McDonald, forces Moe back onto the decaying Coney Island streets he patrolled when he was in uniform. But now, beneath the boardwalk and behind the rusted and crumbling rides of the midway, he finds a trail of death, betrayal, and corruption reaching back to 1972. As Faulkner once said, "The past is never dead. It isn't even past." So it goes for Moe Prager in Soul Patch. Paperback reprint with new foreword by Craig Johnson and New afterword by Reed Farrel Coleman. Includes original short story! * 2008 Shamus Award for Best Novel * * Edgar Award nominee for Best Novel * * Macavity Award nominee for Best Novel * * Barry Award nominee for Best Novel * (Book 4 in the Moe Prager series) Rights Information Publisher: Bleak House Books, Hardcover (April 2007) Busted Flush Press, Paperback (September 1, 2010) Territory: Rights Available: Reviews: "With Soul Patch, Coleman does The James Deans one better and then some. Moe Prager is the man." - Janet Evanovich, author of the Stephanie Plum novels "Coleman tells this story with the steady hand of a ship's captain. This is Brooklyn of the late '80s, long after the Dodgers had departed, but before the current round of gentrification. The earthiness and scrappiness of that borough and its middle-class inhabitants comes through on every page. There's no inferiority complex here - there's pride on every street corner and in every restaurant and apartment building. Soul Patch brings to life the essence of dignity through the inevitable day-to-day struggle. It's about trying to rescue the reputation of a man who didn't deserve your loyalty, and was probably guilty as charged, anyway. It's about trying to make the grade one more time, even after your time has passed and you should be moving on. It can happen to all of us, and fortunately, we have Moe Prager to show us the way." - Stephen Miller, January magazine Blurbs: Purchase at Amazon.com

SOUL PATCH

In this darkly intriguing follow-up to the Shamus and Barry winning The James Deans, ex-NYPD cop turned P.I. and entrepreneur, Moe Prager is faced with a gut-wrenching case. The apparent suicide of his old friend and NYPD Chief of Detectives, Larry McDonald, forces Moe back onto the decaying Coney Island streets he patrolled when he was in uniform. But now, beneath the boardwalk and behind the rusted and crumbling rides of the midway, he finds a trail of death, betrayal, and corruption reaching back to 1972. As Faulkner once said, "The past is never dead. It isn't even past." So it goes for Moe Prager in Soul Patch.

Paperback reprint with new foreword by Craig Johnson and New afterword by Reed Farrel Coleman. Includes original short story!

* 2008 Shamus Award for Best Novel *
* Edgar Award nominee for Best Novel *
* Macavity Award nominee for Best Novel *
* Barry Award nominee for Best Novel *

(Book 4 in the Moe Prager series)

Rights Information

Publisher: Bleak House Books, Hardcover (April 2007)
Busted Flush Press, Paperback (September 1, 2010)

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Rights Available:

Reviews:
"With Soul Patch, Coleman does The James Deans one better and then some. Moe Prager is the man." - Janet Evanovich, author of the Stephanie Plum novels

"Coleman tells this story with the steady hand of a ship's captain. This is Brooklyn of the late '80s, long after the Dodgers had departed, but before the current round of gentrification. The earthiness and scrappiness of that borough and its middle-class inhabitants comes through on every page. There's no inferiority complex here - there's pride on every street corner and in every restaurant and apartment building. Soul Patch brings to life the essence of dignity through the inevitable day-to-day struggle. It's about trying to rescue the reputation of a man who didn't deserve your loyalty, and was probably guilty as charged, anyway. It's about trying to make the grade one more time, even after your time has passed and you should be moving on. It can happen to all of us, and fortunately, we have Moe Prager to show us the way." - Stephen Miller, January magazine

Blurbs:

Purchase at Amazon.com