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    Soul Patch
    Soul Patch
    Soul Patch
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    Soul Patch

    By Reed Farrel Coleman

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    From the author of the New York Times-bestselling Robert B. Parker's Blind Spot

    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.'' So it goes for Moe Prager in Soul Patch.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGallery Books
    Release dateDec 20, 2011
    ISBN9781440540998
    Soul Patch
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    Reed Farrel Coleman

    REED FARREL COLEMAN is a two-time Edgar Award nominee. He has also received the Macavity, Barry and Anthony Awards. To find out more visit: www.reedcoleman.com

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    • 3/5
      Soul Patch is the 4th in Reed Farrel Coleman’s Moe Prager series. As explained in the frontispiece, the title refers to the name given by police to the predominantly black area in Coney Island. In contrast to the first three installments, Moe is not asked to find a missing person. Instead the plot is set in motion when he is given a tape by one of his old friends on the police force, Larry McDonald, who is now the chief of detectives. The tape is of a police interview in which the subject offers information on the murder of a drug dealer. When Larry is found dead, apparently by suicide decides to investigate. Moe’s marriage is hitting some bumpy spots and he is strongly attracted to a young Puerto Rican detective on the case. (I found it a bit implausible that a cynical middle-aged Moe was mooning over this woman and that she was attracted to him. The connection between them that is revealed at the end of the novel is definitely implausible). The plot gets a bit complicated with a surfeit of characters but works its way to a satisfying conclusion.This is a solid and well-written series and I will continue with it.
    • 4/5
      The Moe Prager series is just consistently good. It's 1989 and Larry MacDonald comes to Moe with a cassette tape of a police interview with a low level drug dealer, Malik. Malik wants to bargain with information about the murder of a major drug dealer, D Rex, in 1972. MacDonald is scared for some reason that Moe can't fathom.When MacD's body is found near one of the Brooklyn garbage dumps, an apparent suicide, Prager can't believe it. He begins investigating and makes some very unusual discoveries about the case and a few discoveries about other things as well.Moe is just one likable guy, that's all there is to it. I wish there was a little more of Y.W. Fenn and Israel Roth, but hey, you can't have everything. Soul Patch is just a good read. So enjoy. Two more to go before I'm caught up and ready for Coleman's latest (and possibly last) Moe Prager mystery due out at the end of 2011.
    • 4/5
      (Moe Prager series #4) Like the Harry Potters, successive books always retell the previous ones, include most of the same characters, and the next "assignment" gets foisted on him against his will. A few too many layers of bad guys but it was interesting and I enjoy his writing.

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