Bloody London

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Mass Market Paperback
2006
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As New York basks in a fine Indian summer, no one notices the feral teenagers in Central Park, or the homeless living by the river. Certainly no-one connects them to the Russian gangsters buying into respectability on the East Side, or to the dead Englishman in the swimming pool...Thomas Pascoe, a super-rich, elderly investment banker, is found gorily murdered on the day he was due to return to London, floating in the pool of the most exclusive apartment block in town. As head of the 'co-op' for the luxury apartments, where the residents own the shares, Pascoe had his say in who got to live in them, and who didn't. Could this be a motive for his murder? The investigation takes Artie Cohen to London, where the gripping plot unfolds with a series of murders, an encounter with his longtime girlfriend, and a meeting with a figure from the past. The momentum of apparently tangential events builds to a trademark thrilling conclusion.

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As New York basks in a fine Indian summer, no one notices the feral teenagers in Central Park, or the homeless living by the river. Certainly no-one connects them to the Russian gangsters buying into respectability on the East Side, or to the dead Englishman in the swimming pool...Thomas Pascoe, a super-rich, elderly investment banker, is found gorily murdered on the day he was due to return to London, floating in the pool of the most exclusive apartment block in town. As head of the 'co-op' for the luxury apartments, where the residents own the shares, Pascoe had his say in who got to live in them, and who didn't. Could this be a motive for his murder? The investigation takes Artie Cohen to London, where the gripping plot unfolds with a series of murders, an encounter with his longtime girlfriend, and a meeting with a figure from the past. The momentum of apparently tangential events builds to a trademark thrilling conclusion.

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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Published: 06 Jul 2006
ISBN 10: 0099497794
ISBN 13: 9780099497790
Book Overview: Reggie Nadelson's acclaimed backlist Artie Cohen novels now published in Arrow 'Cohen is a brilliant creation' Sunday Times

Media Reviews

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

Author Bio

A journalist and documentary film maker, Reggie Nadelson is a New Yorker who also makes her home in London. She is the author of six previous novels featuring the detective Artie Cohen ('the detective every woman would like to find in her bed' Guardian), most recently Red Hook. Her non-fiction book Comrade Rockstar, the story of the American who became the biggest rock star in the Soviet Union, is to be made into a film starring Tom Hanks.