CONEY ISLAND AVENUE

THE LONG-AWAITED FOLLOW-UP TO GRAVESEND

 

Shamus Award-winner J.L. Abramo’s follow-up to his highly acclaimed novel GRAVESEND is a wild thrill ride through his native land—Brooklyn, New York.  CONEY ISLAND AVENUE is an emotionally packed chronicle of good and evil, triumph and tragedy and—just below the surface—Abramo’s narrative is a universal tale of fathers, mothers, sons and daughters.

                                                     —Denver Review

 

Detectives Samson and Murphy are back.

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James Samson, now captain, and Thomas Murphy, soon to be reluctantly promoted to lieutenant, are joined by some new and familiar faces at the Sixty-first Precinct—as they frantically work to solve a rash of brutal murders and each deals with personal conflicts.

 

Detective Marina Ivanov—trying to prove the innocence of a friend accused of murder.

 

Detective Bernie Senderowitz—the brilliant veteran engaged in a battle with the bottle.

 

Detective Sandra Rosen—unknowingly stalked by a former lover.

 

Detective Marty Richards—his daughter diagnosed with a potentially life threatening illness.

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Detective Ripley—haunted by the ghosts of those he was forced to kill in the line of duty.

 

And Captain Samson himself—his teenage son a victim of a near fatal shooting.

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