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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A reunion with Jesse Stone’s former minor-league baseball teammates brings old regrets to the surface. When a young woman is murdered in Paradise and her wealthy boyfriend disappears, Jesse discovers that the crimes may be connected to the reunion and someone from his past.

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.

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, police uncover a recent murder alongside the remains of two girls missing for twenty-five years. The old case is personal to Officer Molly Crane, and Jesse Stone must determine how the discoveries connect when another victim is killed.

A Boston crime boss’s murder convinces Jesse Stone that the killer may be Mr. Peepers, an assassin with unfinished business against Jesse and his friends. With Jesse’s ex-wife about to remarry in Dallas, the threat becomes a tense effort to stop a promised act of revenge.

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.

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.

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.

Fresh from rehab, Jesse Stone returns to work as apparently racially motivated crimes unsettle Paradise. As his deputy Alisha is framed and a Black woman’s murder points to a larger scheme, Jesse investigates while trying to understand the guarded young man who has entered his life.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

When a popular Paradise High cheerleader dies from a suspected heroin overdose, Jesse Stone finds the opioid crisis has reached his town. His investigation follows the drug supply chain through the school and beyond, confronting adults and dealers determined to protect a lethal business.

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.

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 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 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.