Thomas Adcock

• Feb-2020
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A "fast-moving" true account of life in a New York City police station with "a rare understanding of officers involved in extreme situations" (San Diego Sun).   Manhattan's 19th precinct includes more than three dozen foreign consulates...

• Feb-2015
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�Die präzise Beschreibung einer realen Begebenheit aus dem letzten Jahrhundert, die ein erhellendes Schlaglicht auf die USA von heute wirft.� Thomas Wörtche Über das Buch 20. Oktober 1907 in Kingston, Ulster County, irgendwo in den Catskill Moun...

• Sep-1997
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A rabbi is killed and a Catholic procession is sprayed with gunfire in this crime thriller in the "beautifully written" Edgar-winning series (The Washington Post).   NYPD detective Neil Hockaday has acted on his conscience by reporting ...

• Apr-1996
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This "irresistible" police procedural "bares the New Orleans underbelly few tourists get to see" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   NYPD detective Neil Hockaday has traveled to the Big Easy, hometown of his wife, African-American ac...

• Feb-1995
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Fresh from his ancestral Irish home with a new bride, old ghosts, and a terrible thirst, Hockaday is drawn into a vicious homicide case. A spate of homosexual deaths around New York City, written off by the police as suicides, are soon revealed to be...

• Feb-1994
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"The case is yours, I fear," Police Captain Davy Mogaill said. "And what grander case may a detective crack than the mystery of his own makings?" Detective Neil Hockaday, hero of New York's elite S.C.O.M. (Street Crimes Unit-Manhattan) patrol, has...

• Dec-1991
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Edgar Award Winner: An NYPD detective navigates a lethal labyrinth in this entry in Adcock's series of "gritty procedurals" (The New York Times Book Review).   The old, shabbily dressed man who walks up to Neil Hockaday in the park one ...

• Oct-1989
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The first in the "beautifully written" Edgar-winning series featuring an NYPD detective working the mean streets of Manhattan's West Side (The Washington Post).   Detective Neil Hockaday, a son of Hell's Kitchen who grew up to join the ...

• Aug-1987
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