Book description
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.
A journalist and documentary film maker, Reggie Nadelson is a New
Yorker who also makes her home in London. She is the author of six
previous novels featuring the detective Artie Cohen ('the detective
every woman would like to find in her bed' Guardian), most recently
Red Hook.
Her non-fiction book
Comrade Rockstar
, the story of the American who became the biggest rock star in the
Soviet Union, is to be made into a film starring Tom Hanks.
