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An NYPD detective travels to Ireland to investigate his own family's past.
Neil Hockaday's father died in World War II before his son could ever know him, and now the police detective is visiting Ireland to meet his last living relative and try to fill in the blanks of his family history. But while he's on vacation, death isn't taking a holiday. The apparent suicides of a retired priest and two cops-and an Irish woman's death in a bombing-combine...
2) Dark Maze
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An NYPD detective navigates a lethal labyrinth in this entry in Adcock's series.
The old, shabbily dressed man who walks up to Neil Hockaday in the park one morning rambles on semicoherently, though he's sharp enough to make Hockaday as a cop. He introduces himself as Picasso, makes snide comments about the policeman to an invisible companion-and issues a vague homicidal threat just before his bus leaves.
Born and bred in Hell's Kitchen and now...
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NYPD detective Neil Hockaday has traveled to the Big Easy, hometown of his wife, African-American actress Ruby Flagg. Her family was driven from their home long ago by an evangelical church and fell on hard times, but Ruby fled and found a life for herself in New York.
And this won't be a peaceful visit for Hock. In a city famed as much for its corruption as its cuisine, he'll become entangled in a web of not only family secrets but also politics...
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A killer targets New York's gay community in this police procedural in the Edgar-winning series.
Neil Hockaday's on furlough from the NYPD as he attempts to cut back on the booze, but his new wife, Ruby, is going back to her advertising job after the couple's trip to Ireland. Unfortunately, the same day she returns to the office, her much-disliked ex-boss's body is found, killed in grisly fashion and wearing a leather mask.
Meanwhile, some of Hock's...
5) Grief Street
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A rabbi is killed and a Catholic procession is sprayed with gunfire in this crime thriller in the Edgar-winning series.
NYPD detective Neil Hockaday has acted on his conscience by reporting a fellow cop for bias and brutality-but there's a killer on the Manhattan streets who seems to have little concern with morality. First a rabbi is murdered by a shadowy figure right in front of his shocked congregation. Then a group of Catholics is gunned down...
6) Sea of Green
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The first in the Edgar-winning series featuring an NYPD detective working the mean streets of Manhattan's West Side.
Detective Neil Hockaday, a son of Hell's Kitchen who grew up to join the NYPD, had a promising meeting scheduled with a snitch-until his informant turned up dead. Meanwhile, a prominent Harlem preacher with a lot of followers, and friends in high places, has been receiving death threats-and Hock's assigned to keep Father Love alive...