Reed Farrel Coleman Books in Order

Insurance investigator Dylan Klein returns to Brooklyn for his mother's funeral and finds himself caught in murder and betrayal. What follows is hard-boiled, paranoid, and deeply tied to home.

Dylan Klein gives up insurance work to write, then gets pulled into a deadly love triangle when a mysterious woman is executed. Organized crime and old emotional wreckage quickly follow.

Dylan Klein is called home from Hollywood for his father's funeral, then thrown into a search for his missing nephew. Drugs, campus corruption, and family chaos turn the case ugly fast.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in San Francisco, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Newly retired cop Moe Prager takes on the disappearance of a college student last seen in 1977 Manhattan. The case drags him through punk clubs, biker bars, and a family that is hiding almost everything.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in the Bronx, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Seattle, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Brooklyn, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology sets its stories inside and around Hasidic communities, where faith, family, secrecy, and power shape the crimes and the pressure.

A grieving brother hires Moe Prager to reopen a decades-old Catskills hotel fire that killed seventeen people, including Moe's first love. The answers lie in old resort-town politics, buried guilt, and stubborn silence.

This follow-up anthology returns to Brooklyn with more standalone noir stories, each using the borough's own history, class lines, and pressure points differently.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Chicago, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Dublin, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

In 1983, Moe Prager investigates the disappearance of a young political intern amid ugly rumors and city power games. Digging deeper, he uncovers an older crime that proves even worse.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Baltimore, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Washington, D.C., using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Disgraced ex-NYPD detective Joe Serpe is working oil delivery and drinking too much when a vulnerable young coworker is murdered. The case offers him one last shot at redemption.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in London, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Manhattan, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Miami, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set across the Twin Cities, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Detroit, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Haunted by old family damage, Moe Prager follows grave robbers and long-suppressed secrets toward the truth about his dead brother-in-law. The case forces him to revisit the darkest parts of his own history.

A hard-edged crime tale about swagger, weapons, and the kind of trouble that never stays under control. Coleman keeps the mood mean and the footing uncertain.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Havana, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Los Angeles, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in New Orleans, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

The apparent suicide of Moe Prager's old friend sends him back to Coney Island and into corruption reaching to 1972. It is a mournful, hard case about betrayal, memory, and the past refusing to stay buried.

This anthology uses the money world of Wall Street as its common ground, with stories about greed, pressure, and the crimes that thrive where reputation matters most.

This third Brooklyn anthology returns to the borough with more standalone noir stories, this time grouped around truth, lies, and the cost of getting either one wrong.

This follow-up anthology returns to Washington, D.C. with more standalone noir stories shaped by the city's power, ambition, and local fault lines.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Istanbul, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Las Vegas, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This follow-up anthology returns to Manhattan with more standalone noir stories, each using the city's scale, wealth, and hidden corners differently.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Paris, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Queens, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

A wave of oil-truck-driver murders turns personal when one of the dead is a retired cop who once saved Joe Serpe's life. Joe and Bob Healy go after a killer with bigger motives than robbery.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Toronto, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Trinidad, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Bob, a solitary Boston bartender, finds a battered pit bull puppy in a trash can and reluctantly takes it in with help from wary neighbor Nadia. When the dog's violent former owner comes looking, Bob is pushed into a dangerous clash with local toughs and the bar's criminal backers.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Delhi, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Phoenix, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Portland, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Rome, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This follow-up anthology returns to San Francisco with more standalone noir stories, each using the city's beauty, divisions, and shadows differently.

Childhood friends Nick and Todd grow into different kinds of criminals as the story moves through Brooklyn, Boston, and Philadelphia. It is a short, bruising noir about loyalty, memory, and men who never really got out.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Copenhagen, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Haiti, using local tension, hard choices, and a strong sense of place to drive the crimes.

This anthology gathers dark stories from Indigenous settings across the Americas, where troubled history and present-day danger meet in sharp, place-driven crime fiction.

When an eleven-year-old art prodigy is abducted, Moe Prager is pulled into the New York art world by his estranged daughter. The case is full of money, ego, and people who may profit from a child's ruin.

This anthology ranges across Texas with standalone noir stories shaped by local pride, bad luck, violence, and the state's many different kinds of hard country.

This follow-up anthology returns to Los Angeles with more standalone noir stories, each using the city's glamour, sprawl, and rot differently.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Mexico City, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Moscow, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Orange County, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Philadelphia, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Richmond, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Barcelona, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set around Cape Cod, showing the crime, class strain, and private damage hiding behind the vacation image.

A faded literary wunderkind stops a campus shooting and gets dragged back into public life just as his writing spark returns. Soon art, obsession, and gun culture begin reflecting one another in dangerous ways.

Moe Prager looks into the murder of his ex-wife's sister, an EMT linked to a public scandal. What starts as a favor opens onto greed, harassment, blackmail, and a city that does not much care.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in New Jersey, using local tension, bad choices, and a strong sense of place to drive the trouble.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Pittsburgh, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in San Diego, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This follow-up anthology returns to Boston with more standalone noir stories, each using the city's history, class lines, and criminal energy differently.

Veteran NYPD detective Jack Kenny and his younger partner Carmen Romero reopen a grisly Bronx cold case. The trail points back toward old police sins the department would rather leave buried.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Kansas City, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Kingston, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology maps Long Island's darker corners, far beyond postcard beaches and wealth, through standalone stories of class division, resentment, and crime.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Mumbai, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in St. Petersburg, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

A noir story set in Staten Island, focusing on a woman grappling with her son's troubling behavior while she becomes obsessed with a tragedy involving a neighbor. It explores themes of entrapment and the dark undercurrents of family life.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Venice, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Buffalo, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Dallas, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

After his sister's murder, Gulliver Dowd becomes a PI and takes a case from the girl he once loved. The missing teenager he is asked to find may be his own daughter.

This follow-up anthology returns to Haiti with more standalone noir stories, each using the country's pressures, history, and danger in different ways.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Manila, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

In 1967, a college-age Moe Prager hunts for the people who beat his girlfriend and threaten his oldest friend. The search pulls him through Brooklyn, radicals, mob connections, and old neighborhood loyalties.

A Holocaust survivor built a second life on a lie, and age finally makes the past impossible to hold back. This dark novella is about guilt, memory, and the stories people steal to survive.

A very short suspense story that traps its characters in a tight moment and lets one hard choice do the damage. Quick, clean, and nasty in the best way.

This volume looks at Kurt Vonnegut's writing and legacy through essays and reflections, offering a compact way into his humor, skepticism, and darker view of modern life.

This anthology ranges across the United States, gathering noir stories from very different regions and communities. The shared thread is pressure, crime, and moral damage, not one continuing cast.

Gulliver Dowd helps a street kid find his dog, then learns the boy has been beaten nearly to death. Strange clues and rising danger send him deeper into Red Hook.

A tough, haunted crime story about old violence and the slim hope that one decent act might still matter. Coleman keeps the pressure high and the sentiment under control.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Belfast, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

A reunion with Jesse Stone's old Triple-A baseball team is interrupted by murder, a missing rich kid, and suspicions that one of Jesse's former teammates is involved. The past proves dangerous from both directions.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Helsinki, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology brings the noir approach behind bars, with stories shaped by confinement, prison hierarchies, and the daily work of survival.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Rio, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Singapore, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Tehran, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Tel Aviv, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Broken by grief, Moe Prager agrees to find a missing young woman who may not even be missing. A body in Manhattan and a tangle of lies turn the search into one of his strangest cases.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Beirut, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This volume collects classic noir stories tied to Chicago, offering a sampler of the city's darker literary traditions rather than one continuous plot.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Marseille, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Memphis, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Providence, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Gulliver Dowd is close to learning who killed his sister when an NYPD detective who might help him is shot on the Coney Island boardwalk. The trail leads into police and organized-crime corruption.

After a Nor'easter tears through Paradise, Jesse Stone finds fresh murder beside the remains of two girls missing for twenty-five years. The old case cuts especially close to Molly Crane.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Zagreb, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Brussels, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Jesse Stone suspects the assassin Mr. Peepers is back and looking for revenge on Jesse, Suitcase, Jenn, and the mob. The threat follows him all the way to a Texas wedding.

Gulliver Dowd makes a devil's bargain to search for a mob boss's missing daughter. Old lies and personal debts turn the case into a dangerous test of loyalty and survival.

Set around the University of Mississippi, this dark short story follows a young woman caught in the ugly social rituals of campus Greek life. Abbott turns a brief romance into a dreamlike tale of class, sex, and menace.

This volume collects classic noir stories tied to New Orleans, offering a sampler of the city's darker literary traditions rather than one continuous plot.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Prague, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in San Juan, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in St. Louis, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Stockholm, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Retired Suffolk County cop Gus Murphy is numb with grief until an ex-con asks him to look into his son's unsolved murder. The search takes Gus into Long Island's hard, hidden underside.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Atlanta, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Buenos Aires, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Montana, using local tension, hard country, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Montreal, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in New Haven, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Oakland, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This volume collects classic noir stories tied to Trinidad, offering a sampler of the setting's darker crime traditions rather than one continuous plot.

Gus Murphy investigates a murdered granddaughter while also trying to protect a friend after witnessing a public execution. The case leads through Long Island corruption, gangs, and a Russian mercenary with no brakes.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Baghdad, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Berlin, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Back from rehab, Jesse Stone faces a series of apparently racist crimes, starting with the murder of a Black woman and a frame-up targeting deputy Alisha. A mysterious newcomer makes the case even more personal.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Hong Kong, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Lagos, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Marrakech, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Santa Cruz, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in São Paulo, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Sydney, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Jesse Stone is still reeling from loss when a ransacked house, a dead woman, and a missing master tape tied to singer Terry Jester collide. The case brings bloodshed, politics, and old allies into Paradise.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Vancouver, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

A lean noir piece about damage, bad timing, and the strange line between sacrifice and self-destruction. Coleman lets the emotional bruise do most of the work.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Amsterdam, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

A washed-up character actor lands the part of a lifetime, but the job may not be acting and the life at stake may not be his own. A sly, fast short story.

A brief New York crime story about vulnerable lives, cramped choices, and the sudden turn from ordinary trouble to real danger. Coleman keeps it small, sharp, and uneasy.

Moe Prager takes on a search for another man's long-lost love and finds more feeling than he expected. It is a quiet, melancholy short piece about what people hope time has preserved.

A powerful Wall Street executive heads to Central America on business and finds far more danger than she planned for. It is a quick, nasty tale about money, risk, and misplaced confidence.

Set against the terror of a concentration camp, this short piece asks what a man can cling to when almost everything human is being stripped away. The result is brief and devastating.

A child vanishing inside a ball pit is enough to make any parent uneasy, and Coleman knows it. This short piece turns that fear into a nasty little blend of crime and speculative menace.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Houston, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

A sharp, unsettling short story in which talk comes cheap until it starts costing people something real. Coleman keeps the setup lean and the threat close.

A special-needs boy fixates on an amusement-park ride and a neighborhood girl, then learns how dangerous wishes can be. It is a tender, troubling short story with a dark turn.

In this haunting Moe Prager short story, a Holocaust survivor asks for one last hard favor. It becomes a quiet, painful meditation on memory, guilt, and what the dead are still owed.

A washed-up 1960s pop star is pushed into a humiliating disco-era TV appearance. It is a darkly funny short story about pride, damage, and performance without much glamour left.

Co-written with Peter Spiegelman, this short story uses Hollywood glare and shadow to show what happens when created characters seem to step into real life.

Set on Long Island, this darkly funny short story follows small-time schemers whose supposedly smart plan starts slipping almost at once. It is less about genius than damage control.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Milwaukee, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This compact crime story looks at a violent man before myth hardens around him. Coleman focuses on ego, appetite, and the early shape of something ugly.

A clever criminal hires Moe Prager to stand beside him at a meeting with the Russian mob. The setup is simple, but the outcome is anything but.

This collection gathers Coleman's crime and speculative short fiction, including Moe Prager pieces, standalones, and poems. It is the quickest way to sample his range in small, sharp doses.

This lean noir tale follows slippery loyalties and the kind of bad decision that keeps getting worse once it starts moving. Short, dark, and efficient.

A cheerleader's heroin death shows Jesse Stone that the opioid trade has reached Paradise High. To stop it, he has to work through frightened kids, defensive adults, and dealers who will kill to protect business.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Accra, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Addis Ababa, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology ranges across Alabama with standalone noir stories shaped by place, pressure, and the state's different local histories.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Belgrade, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Berkeley, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Columbus, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This volume collects classic noir stories tied to Miami, offering a sampler of the city's darker literary traditions rather than one continuous plot.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Nairobi, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Santa Fe, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set around Tampa Bay, using local tension, bad choices, and a strong sense of place to drive the trouble.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Palm Springs, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Denver, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This crime anthology gathers darkly atmospheric tales inspired by the song "Hotel California," including Amanda Flower’s contribution about secrets, betrayal, and murder in and around a mysterious California hotel where checking in is far easier than getting out.

This anthology shifts the noir lens from central Paris to the suburbs, where class tension, migration, and everyday pressure shape the crimes.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in South Central Los Angeles, using local pressure, bad choices, and hard-earned neighborhood knowledge to drive the trouble.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Cleveland, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in East Jerusalem, using local tension, politics, and personal risk to build a strong sense of place.

Nick Ryan is the off-the-books fixer New York cops call when ordinary channels will not work. When the man who knows the city's secrets becomes dangerous to both sides of the law, everyone has a problem.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in West Jerusalem, using local tension, politics, and personal risk to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers crime stories inspired by songs from AC/DC's Back in Black, mixing music cues with murder, betrayal, and hard edges.

Nick Ryan digs into the only recorded New York murder on September 11, 2001 and finds a web of corruption, blood money, and personal loss. The deeper he goes, the fewer people he can trust.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Honolulu, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Hamburg, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Sacramento, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This collection gathers six new crime novellas, including an aging thief's impossible last casino robbery, a secret Sunday liquor route, a cop torn between duty and family, mobsters trading tall tales, a dangerous babysitting job for Boone Daniels, and one man's prison yard transformation.