A collection of essays from New York Times columnist Reggie Nadelson, profiling and celebrating the (largely family-owned) institutions-- restaurants, bookstores, museums--that make up the heart and soul of New York City.
Reggie Nadelson Books
January 1, 2000
Reggie Nadelson is a journalist and documentary filmmaker whose work navigates between New York and London. She is the author of the critically acclaimed series featuring Artie Cohen, a Moscow-born New Yorker and the quintessential post-Cold War detective. Nadelson's writing delves into the complexities of modern life and the characters shaped by it. Her style is recognized for its sharp insight and ability to capture the zeitgeist.
Bloody London
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
The third Artie Cohen novel. As New York basks in the finest Indian summer of the century, Cohen, quitting his contented new life as a low-risk private investigator, finds himself in London, where the plot uncoils with a series of murders and a heartbreaking encounter with his long-time girlfriend.
Red Mercury Blues
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
New York City cop, Artie Cohen is confronted with a case that drags him painfully back into the past, first into the heart of the Russian mafia of Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach, and then deeper into the terrifying world of nuclear smuggling and the secrets of the lethal but elusive substance known as ‘Red Mercury’…
At Balthazar: The New York Brasserie at the Center of the World
- 384 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Set against the backdrop of the iconic Balthazar restaurant, this narrative weaves a rich tapestry of New York's culinary and cultural scene. Through vivid descriptions, the author immerses readers in the restaurant's ambiance, highlighting its glamour and gritty charm. The story celebrates the sensory experiences of dining and the vibrant life of the city, making it a heartfelt homage to both the establishment and its role within New York's landscape.
"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."—E. M. Forster Through seven previous novels, Reggie Nadelson has created one of the more memorable characters in detective fiction: Artie Cohen, New York police detective and first-generation American with complex ties to his Russian past, especially his close friendship with the enigmatic and flamboyant New York/London club owner T olya Sverdloff. Now, in Londongrad—by far Nadelson's most ambitious novel to date—Artie is faced with a murder that strikes at him personally and will ultimately place his best friend's life in his hands as it challenges his own loyalty.In a playground in Brooklyn, Artie is led to a dead girl tied up in duct tape on a children's swing. He soon realizes the killer murdered the wrong girl—the intended victim was Valentina S verdloff, Tolya's daughter, long adored by Artie. Artie flies to London to tell Tolya and finds himself enmeshed on his friend's behalf in a maelstrom of Russian money and crime. Like Berlin at the end of World War II, somebody tells Artie, Londongrad, as it's known, has become an offshore island for the new Russian underworld. Over his head, Artie is drawn further in, to Moscow, where, balancing between the old KGB and the new FSB, between the dazzle and grimness of Russia today, he uncovers a painful truth about his past that puts Tolya's life in the balance.
Comrade Rockstar
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Dean Reed, the American who became the biggest rock star in the Soviet Union was found dead in an East Berlin lake in 1986. In her search for this alluring figure, Nadelson captures the seedy, often hilarious subculture of Soviet rock ’n’ roll.
Hot Poppies
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
A murder in New York's diamond district; a dead Chinese girl with a photograph in her pocket; a plastic bag of irradiated heroin lying on the mantelpiece in an empty apartment; a fire in a sweatshop in the city's swarming Chinatown; the worst blizzard in New York history... These events conspire to bring ex-cop Artie Cohen out of retirement and back into an obsessive world of murder and politics that nearly killed him. Artie's struggles to link them take him from New York, his own back yard, to Hong Kong, site of the last big grab on earth, where everything, and everyone, is for sale...
Artie Cohen Mysteries: Bloody London
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
As New York basks in a fine Indian summer, no one notices the feral teenagers in Central Park, or the homeless living by the river. Certainly no-one connects them to the Russian gangsters buying into respectability on the East Side, or to the dead Englishman in the swimming pool...Thomas Pascoe, a super-rich, elderly investment banker, is found gorily murdered on the day he was due to return to London, floating in the pool of the most exclusive apartment block in town. As head of the 'co-op' for the luxury apartments, where the residents own the shares, Pascoe had his say in who got to live in them, and who didn't. Could this be a motive for his murder?The investigation takes Artie Cohen to London, where the gripping plot unfolds with a series of murders, an encounter with his longtime girlfriend, and a meeting with a figure from the past. The momentum of apparently tangential events builds to a trademark thrilling conclusion.
Kalter Verrat. Ein New-York-Krimi
- 396 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Der russischstämmige Cop Artie Cohen erhält Besuch von seinem Neffen Billy, der nach seiner Zeit in einer Besserungsanstalt charmant und gewachsen ist. Doch nicht alle in der russischen Gemeinde akzeptieren ihn, und als zwei Mädchenleichen auftauchen, gerät Artie unter Druck und beginnt, an seiner Loyalität zu zweifeln.
New York är förlamat sedan attentatet den elfte september: barrikader, avspärrningar och beväpnade soldater är numera permanenta inslag i stadsbilden. En frostig vintermorgon hittar en joggare barnkläder, indränkta med blod och nergrävda i den till hälften frusna marken i närheten av Brighton Beach – på Brooklyns Atlantkust. När ett barn försvinner i en annan del av staden kommer hela New York Citys skräck och osäkerhet upp till ytan. Finns det ett samband mellan de båda fallen? Jakten på mördaren går genom ett New York som sällan skildras, staden som är byggd på vatten: öar, broar, tunnlar och stränder – från nedre Manhattan via Brooklyn och Coney Island till fiskeläget Sheepshead Bay. New York är lika starkt närvarande i Nadelsons roman som Edinburgh i Ian Rankins böcker, eller Venedig i Donna Leons.
