Bronx Requiem
A Detective Jack Kenny Mystery
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Publisher Description
The New York Times—bestselling crime writer teams up with a retired detective to deliver this raw tale of murder and corruption among the NYPD.
Born into a family of Irish Catholic cops, veteran NYPD detective Jack Kenny knows that good policing requires little more than a badge, a revolver, and some street smarts. Kenny's partner, the young and beautiful Carmen Romero, believes in catching today's toughest criminals with technological savvy. But now they're both about to be put to the test as a grisly cold case suddenly draws heat on their fellow officers.
When a new witness to the thirty-year-old "Bronx Barber" murder comes forward, Kenny and Romero discover that the brutal slashing of a prostitute is connected to an NYPD stag party gone wild. Suddenly, Jack's long-deceased first partner is implicated in the crime. With pressure escalating and time running out, their frantic search for truth will put their careers, reputations, and lives at stake. Along the way, they'll learn just how strong the ties that bind New York's Finest really are.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Coleman's literary gifts, last seen in Gun Church, are nowhere on display in this clich -ridden kickoff to a procedural/whodunit series co-written with retired NYPD detective Roe. The unsolved 1976 murder of Angelina Reyes, a stripper and prostitute known as Angel Dancer, near the Throgs Neck Bridge returns to view in 2008 after a witness comes forward to name Det. Jack Kenny's deceased ex-partner, Tony "Gee" Giambello, as the killer. Although Kenny thinks little of his crooked former colleague, whom he knows attended a police stag party at which Angelina entertained shortly before her death, he doesn't believe that Tony was the straight razor-wielding "Bronx Barber." It only bolsters his skepticism when someone makes a heavy-handed attempt to scare him off from digging too deeply. The paucity of surprises and the trite plot will disappoint fans of Coleman's superb Moe Prager novels (Hurt Machine, etc.).
