Rich Zahradnik

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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2014
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Coleridge Taylor Mystery

1 - Last Words (Oct-2014)
2 - Drop Dead Punk (Aug-2015)
3 - A Black Sail (Oct-2016)
4 - Lights Out Summer (Oct-2017)

Book List in Order: 6 titles

  • Last Words

    Coleridge Taylor Mystery - 1

    In March of 1975, as New York City hurtles toward bankruptcy and the Bronx burns, newsman Coleridge Taylor roams police precincts and ERs. He is looking for the story that will deliver him from obits, his place of exile at the Messenger-Telegram. Eve...

  • Drop Dead Punk

    Coleridge Taylor Mystery - 2

    Coleridge Taylor is searching for his next scoop on the police beat. The Messenger-Telegram reporter has a lot to choose from on the crime-ridden streets of New York City in 1975. One story outside his beat is grabbing all the front page glory: New Y...

  • A Black Sail

    Coleridge Taylor Mystery - 3

    On the eve of the U.S. Bicentennial, newsman Taylor Coleridge is covering Operation Sail. New York Harbor is teeming with tall ships from all over the world. While enjoying the spectacle, Taylor is still a police reporter. He wants to cover real stor...

  • Son of Sham

    In March 1977, ballistics link murders going back six months to the same Charter Arms Bulldog .44. A serial killer, Son of Sam, is on the loose. But Coleridge Taylor can't compete with the armies of reporters fighting New York's tabloid war--only rew...

  • Lights Out Summer

    Coleridge Taylor Mystery - 4

    In March 1977, ballistics link murders going back six months to the same Charter Arms Bulldog .44. A serial killer, Son of Sam, is on the loose. But Coleridge Taylor can't compete with the armies of reporters fighting New York's tabloid war--only rew...

  • The Bone Records

    NY Police Academy washout Grigg Orlov discovers an eerie piece of evidence at the scene of his father's brutal murder: a disc-shaped X-ray of a skull. It's a bone record--what Soviet citizens called banned American songs recorded on used X-rays. But ...



Award-Winning Books by Rich Zahradnik

Lights Out Summer
2018 Shamus Award -- Paperback Original P.I. Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rich Zahradnik has published 6 books.

Rich Zahradnik does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Bone Records, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Rich Zahradnik, Last Words, was published in October 2014.

Yes. Rich Zahradnik has 1 series.
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