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This page lists novels, short story collections and non-fiction by Reed Farrel Coleman.

The list includes two novels that were published using the pen name Tony Spinosa.

Cover images, when possible, are for an early US edition and a more recent paperback or digital edition.

By Reed Farrel Coleman
- novels / story collections
- non-fiction

Edited by Reed Farrel Coleman
- anthologies

Life Goes Sleeping

Reed Farrel Coleman

1991

A Dylan Klein novel.

"Dylan Klein, an insurance investigator, teams up with ex-New York City Police detective Johnny MacClough as life in post-Cold War Brooklyn begins to get complicated, clients begin dying, and simple survival becomes the ultimate goal."

Little Easter

Reed Farrel Coleman

1993

A Dylan Klein novel.

"Dylan Klein, having come into some money during his last case, has given up his distinguished career as an insurance investigator to pursue his dream as a writer. But like stray light near a black hole, Klein is sucked into the vacuum of a deadly love triangle by the appearance of a mysterious woman and her subsequent execution. Klein, alarmed that his best friend - ex-New York City detective Johnny MacClough - might be involved, temporarily turns in his pen. With the questionable assistance of an alcoholic newspaper woman and a notorious criminal lawyer, Dylan Klein plunges headlong into the quicksand of organized crime and the powerful men behind it."

They Don't Play Stickball in Milwaukee

Reed Farrel Coleman

1997

A Dylan Klein novel.

"Dylan Klein, insurance investigator cum novelist, returns home from Hollywood to attend his father's funeral. After the burial, Klein learns that his nephew Zak is missing. Unable to get satisfactory answers as to the whereabouts of his son, Klein's older brother, Jeffrey, enlists the aid of Dylan and Dylan's most trusted friend, retired NYPD detective Johnny MacClough. They soon discover Zak's trail is not only icy cold, but paved in layers of blood and intrigue."

Walking the Perfect Square

Reed Farrel Coleman

2001

A Moe Prager novel.

"Recently retired due to a freak accident, NYPD officer Moe Prager is lost. In pain and without the job he loves, Moe reluctantly settles on the notion of going into the wine business with his brother. When a suburban college student vanishes off the streets of Manhattan, Prager's universe is turned upside down and his life changed forever. Hired by the student's desperate family, Moe plunges deep into the world of New York's punk underground, sex clubs, and biker bars. Politicians, journalists, and crooked cops seem hell-bent on stopping him in his tracks."

Redemption Street

Reed Farrel Coleman

2004

A Moe Prager novel.

"Still possessed of his vintage police savvy, and perhaps the only Jewish licensed PI in the five boroughs, Moe wonders if he’s really meant to be a merchant and not a cop. Redemption Street finds him in 1981, lured into the mystery of a 1966 hotel fire - one that killed seventeen people, including his first love - by a long-grieving brother and Moe’s own restless determination to set things right. The borscht belt’s near-forgotten landscape of scarred lives, ambitious politicians, and corrupt cops is the minefield Moe must brave to find the truth. Was the fire really sparked by a negligent smoker or was it murder? Will the long dead keep their secrets or divulge their stories? And will what Moe uncovers lead him down another blind alley or into the bright light of Redemption Street?"

The James Deans

Reed Farrel Coleman

2005

A Moe Prager novel.

"Moe Prager is bullied into taking the case of an up-and-coming politico whose career has stalled over the suspicious disappearance of a young woman. It's been almost two years since Moira Heaton, State Senator Steven Brightman's intern, vanished on Thanksgiving Eve 1981. In spite of Brightman's best efforts to clear his name, he has been tried and convicted in the press. As a reluctant Moe peels away the layers of the case, he discovers the tragic circumstances of Moira Heaton's disappearance are buried deep in the past and that there is another more heinous crime at the heart of it all. Will the ugly truth set Brightman free or will it bury all the players beneath the crumbling artiface of corruption, murder, and hate?"

Hose Monkey

Tony Spinosa

2006

A Joe Serpe novel. Published in 2012 as by Reed Farrel Coleman.

"When former NYPD detective Joe Serpe hit bottom, he just kept on going. Having lost his career to charges of corruption, his family to divorce, his partner to suicide, and his fireman brother to the tragedy of 9/11, Serpe's world is nearly empty but for his cat, Mulligan. Living in a basement apartment in a blue collar town on Long Island, Joe spends his days filling tanks with home heating oil and his nights filling his belly with vodka. But when a young retarded man who worked for Joe's oil company is cruelly murdered, Joe Serpe rediscovers purpose and grasps for a last chance at redemption. Along with his former Internal Affairs Bureau nemesis, Bob Healy, and Marla Stein, a brave and beautiful, group home psychologist, Joe wades into the world of street gangs, anti-immigration organizations, and the Red Mafia. Hose Monkey is a rough and tumble ride through a violent, often cruel world-a world where it's hard to tell the bad guys from the good guys without a scorecard. It is a world of murder and extortion, but one in which an innocent Down Syndrome girl may hold the key that unlocks the mystery."

Soul Patch

Reed Farrel Coleman

2007

A Moe Prager novel.

"Ex-NYPD cop turned P. I. and entrepreneur, Moe Prager is faced with a gut-wrenching case. The apparent suicide of his old friend and NYPD Chief of Detectives, Larry McDonald, forces Moe back onto the decaying Coney Island streets he patrolled when he was in uniform. But now, beneath the boardwalk and behind the rusted and crumbling rides of the midway, he finds a trail of death, betrayal, and corruption reaching back to 1972. As Faulkner once said - The past is never dead. It isn't even past."

Empty Ever After

Reed Farrel Coleman

2008

A Moe Prager novel.

"There are no second acts for the dead . . . or are there? For over twenty years, retired NYPD officer and PI Moe Prager, has been haunted by the secret that would eventually destroy his family. Now, two years after the fallout from the truth, more than secrets are haunting the Prager family. Moe Prager follows a trail of graverobbers from cemetery to cemetery, from ashes to ashes and back again in order to finally solve the enigma of his dead brother-in-law Patrick. He plunges deeper into the dark recesses of his past than ever before, revisiting all of his old cases, in order to uncover the twisted alchemy of vengeance and resurrection. Will Moe, at last, put his past to rest? Will he find the man who belongs in that vacant grave or will it remain empty, empty ever after?"

The Fourth Victim

Tony Spinosa

2008

A Joe Serpe novel.

"A year after ex-NYPD detectives and former enemies Joe Serpe and Bob Healy teamed up to solve the murder of a retarded young man who worked at Joe's company - and prevented the Russian Mafia from infiltrating the home heating oil business on Long Island - they are faced with an even more heinous series of crimes. Five oil truck drivers have been robbed and shot to death, their lifeless bodies left to bleed out on the cold and loveless suburban streets. The killer should have chosen his victims more wisely, because the fourth victim, Rusty Monaco, was another retired NYPD detective, one who had saved Joe Serpe's life while they were both still on the job."

Tower

Ken Bruen / Reed Farrel Coleman

2009

"Nick's father is a stand-up Irishman - once a cop, now a security guard in the World Trade Center's North Tower - but Nick does not take after his old man. He's 'got the bad drop,' meaning he only cares about booze, violence, and getting into trouble with his best friend, Todd, a low-level hood connected to the Boston mob. Todd inducts Nick into the world of petty crime. What starts as a bit of good fun -- robbing apartments, scoring weed -- turns serious as Todd gets closer to the inner circle. He may not love violence as much as Nick does, but he's about to get more than his fair share."

Innocent Monster

Reed Farrel Coleman

2010

A Moe Prager novel.

"When his estranged daughter Sarah comes to him with a request he cannot refuse, Moe takes a deep breath and plunges back into the icy, opaque waters of secrets and lies. Sashi Bluntstone, an eleven-year-old art prodigy and daughter of Sarah's dearest childhood friend, has been abducted. Three weeks into the investigation, the cops have gotten nowhere and the parents have gotten desperate. Desperation, the door through which Moe Prager always enters, swings wide open. Just as in Sashi's paintings, there's much more to the case than one can see at a glance. With the help of an ex-football star, Moe stumbles around the fringes of the New York art scene, trying to get a handle on where the art stops and the commerce begins. Much to Moe's surprise and disgust, he discovers that Sashi is, on the one hand, revered as a cash cow and, on the other, reviled as a fraud and a joke. Suspects abound beyond the usual predators and pedophiles, for it is those closest to Sashi in life who have the most to gain from her death. Cruel ironies lurk around every corner, beneath every painting, and behind every door. Almost nothing is what it seems. Beware the innocent monster, for it need not hide itself and it lives closely among us: sometimes as close as the mirror."

Hurt Machine

Reed Farrel Coleman

2011

A Moe Prager novel.

"At a pre-wedding party for his daughter Sarah, Moe Prager is approached by his ex-wife and former PI partner Carmella Melendez. It seems Carmella's estranged sister Alta has been murdered, but no one in New York City seems to care. Why? Alta, a FDNY EMT, and her partner had months earlier refused to give assistance to a dying man at a fancy downtown eatery. Moe decides to help Carmella as a means to distract himself from his own life-and-death struggle. Making headway on the case is no mean feat as no one, including Alta's partner Maya Watson, wants to cooperate. Moe chips away until he discovers a cancer roiling just below the surface, a cancer whose symptoms include bureaucratic greed, sexual harassment, and blackmail. But is any of it connected to Alta's brutal murder?"

The Brooklyn Rules

Reed Farrel Coleman / Tony Spinosa

2011

Electronic publication of a collection of six short stories originally published in anthologies and magazines in 2006 and 2007. Plus a new introduction by Reed Farrel Coleman.

The stories are:

• Killing O’Malley
• Requiem for Jack
• Requiem for Moe
• Pearls
• King Fixer
• Bathead Speed

Bronx Requiem

John Roe with Reed Farrel Coleman

2012

A Jack Kenny novel. Possibly only published electronically

"Conservative, stubborn, and frustrated by institutional red tape, Detective Jack Kenny solves crimes the old-fashioned way. If there's anything that thirty-plus years in the NYPD - or being born into a family of Irish Catholic cops - teaches you, it's that good police officers need little more than a badge, a six-shot revolver, and some seasoned street smarts to get the answers they need. Kenny's partner, the young, beautiful, and technologically savvy Carmen Romero, believes that computers - not hunches - are the key to identifying and catching today's toughest criminals. Together, Kenny and Romero make a pairing as fiery as it is effective. But when a new witness to the grisly, thirty-year-old 'Bronx Barber' murder comes forward, linking the brutal slashing of a prostitute with an NYPD stag party gone wild, the duo's skills and loyalties are put to the test like never before. Suddenly, Jack's long-deceased first partner is implicated in the crime, and an unpaid debt drives the veteran detective to get to the heart of a secret that the NYPD would prefer to leave in its past."

Gun Church

Reed Farrel Coleman

2012

"Once a literary wunderkind, author Kip Weiler now teaches creative writing at Brixton County Community College - a third-rate school in a rural mining town. But when he saves his class from a potential bloodbath, he is initiated by two of his students into a cult-like group that worships the essential nature of handguns, and rekindles his long-absent creative spark. But as Weiler's involvement with the cult deepens and the end of his novel is in sight, the lines between art and life blur until they become unrecognizable. In this church, there's no need for red wine or wafers. In Gun Church, the blood and bodies are for real."

Onion Street

Reed Farrel Coleman

2013

A Moe Prager novel.

"It’s 1967 and Moe Prager is wandering aimlessly through his college career and his life. All that changes when his girlfriend Mindy is viciously beaten into a coma and left to die on the snow-covered streets of Brooklyn. Suddenly, Moe has purpose. He is determined to find out who’s done this to Mindy and why. But Mindy is not the only person in Moe’s life who’s in danger. Someone is also trying to kill his best and oldest friend, Bobby Friedman. Things get really strange when Moe enlists the aid of Lids, a half-cracked genius drug pusher from the old neighborhood. Lids hooks Moe up with his first solid information. Problem is, the info seems to take Moe in five directions at once and leads to more questions than answers. How is a bitter old camp survivor connected to the dead man in the apartment above his fixit shop, or to the OD-ed junkie found on the boardwalk in Coney Island? What could an underground radical group have to do with the local Mafioso capo? And where do Mindy and Bobby fit into any of this?"

Dirty Work

Reed Farrel Coleman

2013

A Gulliver Dowd novel.

"Gulliver Dowd is a little person in a world of hurt. After his sister, an NYPD policewoman, is murdered, he becomes a licensed PI. Dowd is shocked to discover that his mysterious new client is Nina, his high-school girlfriend and the one true love of his life. But the real surprise is yet to come. Nina hires Gulliver to find her runaway daughter, convincing him to take the case only when she confesses that the missing girl is Dowd’s daughter too, the product of their high-school romance. When he takes the case, Dowd must travel from an exclusive girls’ academy to a Mafia don’s mansion to seek the answer to his newfound daughter’s disappearance. But all is not what it seems. What is the real surprise awaiting Gulliver Dowd?"

The Hollow Girl

Reed Farrel Coleman

2014

A Moe Prager novel.

"Drunk, alone, and racked with guilt over the tragic death of his girlfriend Pam, Moe Prager is destined for oblivion. But destiny takes a detour when a shadowy figure from Moe's past reappears to beg for Moe's help in locating her missing daughter. As a reluctant, distracted Moe delves into the case, he discovers that nothing is as it seems and no one involved is quite who or what they appear to be. This is especially true of the missing daughter, an early internet sensation known ironically as the Lost Girl or the Hollow Girl. The case itself is hollow, as Moe finds little proof that anyone is actually missing. Things take a bizarre twist as Moe stumbles across a body in a trendy Manhattan apartment and the Hollow Girl suddenly re-emerges on video screens everywhere. It's a wild ride through the funhouse as Moe tries to piece together a case from the half-truths and lies told to him by a fool's parade of family members, washed-up showbiz types, uncaring cops, a doorman, and a lovesick PI. Even as the ticking clock gets louder, Moe is unsure if it's all a big hoax or if someone's life is really at stake."

Robert B. Parker's Blind Spot

Reed Farrel Coleman

2014

A Jesse Stone novel.

"When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team at a hip New York city hotel, he is forced to grapple with his memories and regrets over what might have been. Jesse left more behind him than unresolved feelings about the play that ended his baseball career. The darkly sensuous Kayla, his former girlfriend and current wife of an old teammate is there in New York, too. As is Kayla’s friend, Dee, an otherworldly beauty with secret regrets of her own. But Jesse’s time at the reunion is cut short when, in Paradise, a young woman is found murdered and her boyfriend, a son of one of the town’s most prominent families, is missing and presumed kidnapped. Though seemingly coincidental, there is a connection between the reunion and the crimes back in Paradise. As Jesse, Molly, and Suit hunt for the killer and for the missing son, it becomes clear that one of Jesse’s old teammates is intimately involved in the crimes. That there are deadly forces working below the surface and just beyond the edge of their vision. Sometimes, that’s where the danger comes from, and where real evil lurks. Not out in the light - but in your blind spot."

Valentino Pier

Reed Farrel Coleman

2014

A Gulliver Dowd novel.

"It all begins when PI Gulliver Dowd is approached by Ellis Torres, a street kid, on Valentino Pier in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Ellis has lost his dog, and after Gulliver helps to find the dog for him, they go their separate ways. So when Ellis is discovered beaten, unconscious and left for dead not far from the pier early the following morning, Gulliver is horrified–and suspicious. He sets out to find the attacker and learn why the boy was targeted. What Gulliver uncovers by way of bizarre clues–amidst threats of danger to himself and his loved ones—leads him on his most curious case yet. Undeniably, there is something amiss at Valentino Pier."

A Redemption of Bones

Reed Farrel Coleman

2014

An electronically published short story.

"When Mr. Rock, a professional assassin, is diagnosed with a rare disease that slowly turns his flesh to bone, he’s forced into early retirement. Before he hangs it up, he takes on one last hit. But his stiffened trigger finger causes him to botch the job, landing him in the sadistic hands of his intended victim—the head doctor at the Cosgrove Extended Care Facility. Here the patients aren’t kept alive so much as they’re kept undead. For years on end, Mr. Rock is held at the facility, a prisoner in his own body, tortured, and forced to witness the abuse of other patients. But Mr. Rock has one more secret in his bag of assassin’s tricks as he plans his final act: revenge."

The Book Of Ghosts

Reed Farrel Coleman

2014

An electronically published short story.

"The lie that bought Jacob Weisen a new life cannot help him escape the past. Birkenau could not kill Jacob Weisen. He survived the death camp and made his way to America, where he became famous telling the story of Isaac Becker, an author who was tortured to death when the guards caught him writing down his story. Becker's manuscript was lost, but by telling the tale, Weisen keeps his memory alive. No other witnesses survived – and Weisen is the only person who knows his famous story is a lie. In fact, Weisen was a collaborator, who led his countrymen to the ovens and gave Becker up to the SS. Decades after the war, as his lies begin to unravel, he must choose between admitting the truth and dying in a hell of his own creation."

Robert B. Parker's The Devil Wins

Reed Farrel Coleman

2015

A Jesse Stone novel.

"In the wake of a huge storm, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an abandoned factory building in an industrial part of Paradise known as The Swap. One body, a man's, wrapped in a blue tarp, is only hours old. But found within feet of that body are the skeletal remains of two teenage girls who had gone missing during a Fourth of July celebration twenty-five years earlier. Not only does that crime predate Jesse Stone's arrival in Paradise, but the dead girls were close friends of Jesse's right hand, Officer Molly Crane. And things become even more complicated when one of the dead girls' mothers returns to Paradise to bury her daughter and is promptly murdered. It's up to Police Chief Jesse Stone to pull away the veil of the past to see how all the murders are connected."

The Boardwalk

Reed Farrel Coleman

2015

A Gulliver Dowd novel.

"Gulliver Dowd is finally on the verge of unraveling the mystery behind his sister’s murder when the man who is supposed to give him the scoop, NYPD Detective Sam Patrick, is gunned down on the Coney Island Boardwalk. As Dowd delves into Patrick’s accidental shooting, he uncovers a pattern of corruption and deceit involving organized crime and the police. But there are tough choices to be made. Just how much is Gulliver willing to sacrifice in order to find out why his sister was murdered and to unmask the killer? The answers aren’t found in the moon or the stars, but on the boardwalk."

Robert B. Parker's Debt to Pay

Reed Farrel Coleman

2016

A Jesse Stone novel.

"All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jenn, is about to marry a Dallas real-estate tycoon, Jesse isn't too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. But those concerns get put on the back burner when a major Boston crime boss is brutally murdered. Despite all evidence to the contrary, Jesse suspects it's the work of Mr. Peepers, a psychotic assassin who has caused trouble for Jesse in the past. Peepers has long promised revenge against the Mob, Jesse, and Suit for their roles in foiling one of his hits - and against Jenn as well. And though Jesse and Jenn have long parted ways, Jesse still feels responsible for her safety. Jesse and Diana head to Dallas for the wedding and, along with the tycoon's security team, try to stop Peepers before the bill comes due. With Peepers toying with the authorities as to when and where he'll strike, Jesse is up against the wall. Still, there's a debt to pay and blood to be spilled to satisfy it. But whose blood, and just how much?"

Love and Fear

Reed Farrel Coleman

2016

A Gulliver Dowd novel.

"When the daughter of the most powerful Mafia don in New York goes missing, the don’s right-hand man comes to Gulliver Dowd for help. Problem is, the right-hand man and Dowd despise each other. Plus, the don knows who murdered Dowd’s sister, Keisha, but refuses to share that knowledge with Gulliver. Still, Dowd makes a devil’s deal and hunts for the girl. Old secrets and lies boil to the surface, threatening to destroy the lives of everyone involved. But who has the girl? An eccentric art professor, or one of the don’s many enemies? Will Gulliver find her, or will their fates dissolve in a corrosive stew of love and fear?"

Where It Hurts

Reed Farrel Coleman

2016

A Gus Murphy novel.

"Divorced and working as a courtesy van driver for the run-down hotel in which he has a room, Gus has settled into a mindless, soulless routine that barely keeps his grief at arm’s length. But Gus’s comfortable waking trance comes to an end when ex-con Tommy Delcamino asks him for help. Four months earlier, Tommy’s son T.J.’s battered body was discovered in a wooded lot, yet the Suffolk County PD doesn’t seem interested in pursuing the killers. In desperation, Tommy seeks out the only cop he ever trusted—Gus Murphy. Gus reluctantly agrees to see what he can uncover. As he begins to sweep away the layers of dust that have collected over the case during the intervening months, Gus finds that Tommy was telling the truth. It seems that everyone involved with the late T.J Delcamino - from his best friend, to a gang enforcer, to a mafia capo, and even the police—has something to hide, and all are willing to go to extreme lengths to keep it hidden. It’s a dangerous favor Gus has taken on as he claws his way back to take a place among the living, while searching through the sewers for a killer."

What You Break

Reed Farrel Coleman

2017

A Gus Murphy novel.

"Gus Murphy and his girlfriend, Magdalena, are put in harm’s way when Gus is caught up in the distant aftershocks of heinous crimes committed decades ago in Vietnam and Russia. Gus’s ex-priest pal, Bill Kilkenny, introduces him to a wealthy businessman anxious to have someone look more deeply into the brutal murder of his granddaughter. Though the police already have the girl’s murderer in custody, they have been unable to provide a reason for the killing. The businessman, Spears, offers big incentives if Gus can supply him with what the cops cannot—a motive. Later that same day, Gus witnesses the execution of a man who has just met with his friend Slava. As Gus looks into the girl’s murder and tries to protect Slava from the executioner’s bullet, he must navigate a minefield populated by hostile cops, street gangs, and a Russian mercenary who will stop at nothing to do his master’s bidding. But in trying to solve the girl’s murder and save his friend, Gus may be opening a door into a past that was best left forgotten."

Robert B. Parker's The Hangman's Sonnet

Reed Farrel Coleman

2017

A Jesse Stone novel.

"Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiancée by crazed assassin Mr Peepers, must keep his emotions in check long enough to get through the wedding day of his loyal protégé, Suitcase Simpson. The morning of the wedding, Jesse learns that a gala 75th birthday party is to be held for folk singer Terry Jester. Jester, once the equal of Bob Dylan, has spent the last forty years in seclusion after the mysterious disappearance of the master recording tape of his magnum opus, The Hangman's Sonnet. That same morning, an elderly Paradise woman dies while her house is being ransacked. What are the thieves looking for? And what's the connection to Terry Jester and the mysterious missing tape? Jesse's investigation is hampered by hostile politicians and a growing trail of blood and bodies, forcing him to solicit the help of mobster Vinnie Morris and a certain Boston area PI named Spenser. While the town fathers pressure him to avoid a PR nightmare, Jesse must connect the cases before the bodies pile up further."

Robert B. Parker's Colorblind

Reed Farrel Coleman

2018

A Jesse Stone novel.

"Jesse Stone is back on the job after a stint in rehab, and the road to recovery is immediately made bumpy by a series of disturbing and apparently racially motivated crimes, beginning with the murder of an African American woman. Then, Jesse's own deputy Alisha - the first black woman hired by the Paradise police force - becomes the target of a sophisticated frame-up. As he and his team work tirelessly to unravel the truth, he has to wonder if this is just one part of an even grander plot, one with an end game more destructive than any of them can imagine. At the same time, a mysterious young man named Cole Slayton rolls into town with a chip on his shoulder and a problem with authority - namely, Jesse. Yet, something about the angry twenty-something appeals to Jesse, and he takes Cole under his wing. But there's more to him than meets the eye, and his secrets might change Jesse's life forever."

In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero

Editor: Otto Penzler

2012

Includes a chapter by Reed Farrel Coleman called Go East, young man: Robert B. Parker, Jesse Stone, and Spenser.

"When Robert B. Parker passed in early 2010, the world lost two great men: Parker himself, iconic American crime writer whose books have sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, and his best-known creation, Spenser. Parker's Spenser series not only influenced the work of countless of today's writers, but is also credited with reviving and forever changing the genre. In Pursuit of Spenser offers a look at Parker and to Spenser through the eyes of the writers he influenced."

• Introduction (Otto Penzler)
• Songs Spenser Taught Me (Ace Atkins)
• Voice Of The City (Dennis Lehane)
• They Like The Way It Sounds (Lawrence Block)
• Spenser's Code Of Humor (Parnell Hall)
• Parker And Spenser: A Collaboration (Loren D. Estleman)
• Bob, Boston And Me: A Remembrance (Jeremiah Healy)
• A Man For All Seasonings (Brendan Dubois)
• Spenser And The Art Of The Family Table (Lyndsay Faye)
• Looking For Hawk (Gary Phillips)
• Who Is Silverman, What Is She? (S.J. Rozan)
• A Look At Spenser: For Hire (Max Allan Collins And Matthew Clemens)
• Go East, Young Man: Robert B. Parker, Jesse Stone, And Spenser (Reed Farrel Coleman)
• Parker Saddles Up: The Westerns Of Robert B. Parker (Ed Gorman)
• Spenser: A Profile (Robert B. Parker)
• A Bibliography Of The Works Of Robert B. Parker

Books to Die For

Editor: John Connolly and Declan Burke

2012

The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels.

Reed Farrel Coleman writes about Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee in this collection.

"In a series of personal essays that often reveal as much about themselves and their work as they do about the books that they love, more than 120 authors from twenty countries have created a guide that will be indispensable for generations of readers and writers. From Christie to Child and Poe to PD James, from Sherlock Holmes to Hannibal Lecter and Philip Marlowe to Peter Wimsey, Books To Die For brings together the cream of the mystery world for a feast of reading pleasure, a treasure trove for those new to the genre and those who believe that there is nothing new left to discover."

The Shamus Sampler

Editor: Jochem Vandersteen

2013

Only published electronically.

Reed Farrel Coleman wrote the introduction for this anthology of PI stories.

"An anthology full of exciting PI fiction and an essay written by popular names like Reed Farrel Coleman, Bill Crider, James Winter, Fred Zackel, J.L. Abramo, Keith Dixon, Jochem Vandersteen, Sean Dexter and some newer names like Kit Rohrbacher, Peter DiChellis and others. This is the perfect anthology to pick up if you want to get introduced to all the great PI writers out there."

• Introduction: The Landscape (Reed Farrel Coleman)
• Mysterious Private Investigations (Peter DiChellis)
• One Hit Wonder: A Jake Diamond Short Story (J. L. Abramo)
• The Case of the Derby Diamond (Jeffery Marks)
• Gypsy's Kiss (Jim Winter)
• The Smell Of Perfume (Graham Smith)
• Rage: A Jim Wolf Mystery (Tim Wohlforth)
• The Patriot (Sean Benjamin Dexter)
• Drumstick Murder (Michael Haskins)
• A Matter Of Heart (Bill Crider)
• Christmas Morning (Stephen D. Rogers)
• The Same Old Story (Keith Dixon)
• The Dutch Connection (Kit Rohrbach)
• Mario and Cheryse (Fred Zackel)
• Hired From The Grave: A Noah Milano Short Story (Jochem Vandersteen)

Hard Boiled Brooklyn

Editor: Reed Farrel Coleman

2006

The contents are:

• Bullie's Pulpit : Dead Man (Joseph Wallace)
• The Last Pick (Jason Starr)
• House Envy (Naomi Rand)
• Poetry, Existentialism, And Bocce: Waiting For Gallo (Charlie Stella)
• Stones (Ken Bruen)
• The Bocce Ball King Of Farragut Road (Robert Randisi)
• Just Off The Boat: Sunset (S.J. Rozan)
• Hit And Run (Glenville Lovell)
• Killing O'Malley (Tony Spinosa)
• Good Cops, Bad Cops: Brenda, My Star (Jim Fusilli)
• Right Is Right (Gabriel Cohen)
• The Last Honest Man In Brooklyn (Michelle Martinez)
• Justice Brooklyn Style: Location, Location, Location (Peter Spiegelman)
• All Bleeding Stops ... Eventually (Tim Sheard)
• Boneshaker (Maggie Estep)
• No Justice In Brooklyn, Ever : Step Up (Ralph Pezzullo)
• Going, Going, Gone (Peter Blauner)