Crime in New York? Youre kidding?...NYC Crime Novels
Explore the grit and glamour of NYC crime fiction with our curated list. Featuring Lawrence Block's *Small Town*, *The Alienist* by Caleb Carr, and *Cotton Comes to Harlem*, discover the best New York crime novels.
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Derailed
by James Siegel
A fateful encounter with Lucinda, a married woman, on the Long Island Railroad leads to disaster for middle-class ad executive Charles Schine after a rendezvous at a sordid hotel leads to a brutal attack, blackmail, a would-be hitman, and murder. By the author of Epitaph. 20,000 first printing.
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Small Town
by Lawrence Block
In the shadows of unbearable tragedy, an unlikelykilling machine begins a one-man war tobring a city to its knees -- a battle that will touchthe lives of its eight million citizens including: a writer on the verge of a breakthrough a charismatic ex-police commissioner -- and the inside choice for the next mayor -- on the edge of a breakdown a beautiful, sophisticated art dealerplumbing the depths of her own fiercesexuality a defense attorney who prefers murdertrials because there’s one less witness an ex-addict who has turned being cleaninto a living, mopping up after New York’snightlife Pulsating with the lives of its denizens -- bartenders and hookers, power brokers andpoliticos, cops and secretaries, editors anddreamers -- Lawrence Block's electrifying newnovel reveals the small town at the heart of theBig Apple in all its power, terror, and starkbeauty.
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The Con Man's Daughter
by Ed Dee
When his thirty-five-year-old daughter is kidnapped, former NYPD detective Eddie Dunne, suspecting the disappearance is related to his previous employment with a crime boss, finds the case complicated by his former partner's grisly murder.
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The Alienist
by Caleb Carr
In 1896 New York, psychologist--or in period terminology, an alienist--Laszlo Kreizler joins forces with journalist John Schuyler Moore to track a vicious serial killer.