Mid-December 2008. Barack Obama has just been elected; all New York is ecstatic, especially Harlem. On a freezing night a few weeks later, detective Artie Cohen gets a late call from his ex girlfriend, Lily Hanes, begging for his help. Lily has been living at the Louis Armstrong Apartments, one of Harlem's great buildings, while working on Obama's campaign; now her Russian neighbor, Marianna Simonova, has died, and Lily fears she's at fault and needs Artie's Russian connections. Over a weekend when the city is locked in by snow and cold, with the financial markets tanking, one after another people at the Armstrong die. Artie, out of his element, a white detective in a black world, is drawn inexorably into the realm of Sugar Hill and the Armstrong, where almost everybody except for the real estate developers seems locked in the past…

Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

Nadelson's ninth mystery featuring Artie Cohen shows her at the top of her game. Nadelson has few peers at incorporating a strong whodunit plot into a contemporary police inquiry, but her real strength is Cohen himself, a tortured but sympathetic soul whose close relationships are never straightforward.

 

 

 

The voice of Artie Cohen

Four Artie Cohen Mysteries are now available as unabridged audiobooks. Reggie's novels, ranging from Distrubed Earth to Londongrad are available at Audible.com read by Elijah Alexander. Who he? you ask. Pish tush… Elijah was there when Brad met Angelina (he had a small but juicy role in "Mr and Mrs Smith"); aside from film and TV work, he has a love of theatre, having made is mark playing leading roles in George Bernard Shaw’s "Man and Superman" and Wilde’s "An Ideal Husband" in San Francisc. Now, he is the voice of Artie Cohen. Now we know that The Guardian was right when they said Artie is "The detective every woman would want to find in her bed. "

Listen to Elijah Alexander read from "Londongrad"

 

Reviews for "LONDONGRAD"

IAN RANKIN Tatler, December 2009

"Nadelson writes wonderfully well about New York in her crime novel series featuring detective Artie Cohen. Her new book, however takes Cohen out of his comfort zone. The murder of a Russian friend's daughter leads him to London and Moscow. Nadelson's take on a London of Oligarchs fuelled by money from the 'new Russia' is thrilling and trenchant"

Ben Moser, HARPER'S

"Nadelson's steady pacing keeps the pages turning... the detective-story format overlays an ambitious novel that manages to trace the tentacles of an international underworld of increasingly palpable influence, while at the same time forcing us to confront uncomfortable moral questions of loyalty and honor."

Marcel Berlins, The Times

Nadelson writes and plots with panache, and she portrays the Russian diaspora in the US, funny and sad, with conviction.

The Literary Review

This is a novel of many layer, a murder story underying a love story that underlies a portrait of a dangerous society rolling in filthy money and haunted by its equally filthy past…

Hank Wagner, Mystery Scene

Reggie Nadelson, where have you been all my life? This book is not just a well-written thriller, but one of those, "Damn, she's really good" type of books, the kind that inspires reading junkies such as this reviewer to immediately seek out the author's backlist to see what he's been missing.

Londongrad is a dark, moody, brooding gem that's bound to get under your skin. … the drama and pathos Madelson milks from the second victim's passing is worth the price of admission all on it's own.

For more info, and to read a sample chapter click here.

August 10: In Conversation with Leonard Lopate on WNYC

Reggie Nadelson, Lee Child (author of "Gone Tomorrow"), and George Dawes Green (author of "Ravens", talk to Leonard Lopate on WNYC about crime thrillers set in New York City.

"New York City Thrillers" with Leonpard Lopate on WNYC