Red on Red by Edward Conlon

We will be discussing Red on Red by Edward Conlon at our next meeting on April 25th at 6:30 p.m. in the Upper Level Conference Room of the Newark Library. Copies of the book are available to be checked out at the Newark Library.

2012 Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel

Library Journal Review

NYPD detective Conlon follows up his first-class memoir, Blue Blood, with this superb first novel. Set in upper Manhattan's Dominican-dominated Washington Heights, it is a police procedural with a potent mix of strong story line, police jargon, crisp dialog, black humor, bleakness, gangs, drugs, shootings, murders, and suicide, with complicated romances thrown in.
    

 Read the NPR review of Red on Red here.

 

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The Long Fall by Walter Mosley

At our next meeting on March 28th, we'll be discussing The Long Fall, the first book in Walter Mosley's latest series featuring Leonid McGill, a New York private detective. 

Watch the book trailer here.