Stephen Solomita

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1988
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Stanley Moodrow

1 - A Twist of the Knife (Oct-1988)
2 - Force of Nature (Sep-1989)
3 - Forced Entry (Oct-1990)
4 - Bad to the Bone (May-1991)
5 - A Piece of the Action (Jul-1992)
6 - Damaged Goods (Jan-1996)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • A Twist of the Knife

    Stanley Moodrow - 1

    A hard-nosed cop tears into the criminal shadow world of the Lower East SideOn the streets of downtown Manhattan, there is no better disguise than the vacant stare and limp slouch of the junkie. Masquerading as an addict, Johnny Katanos goes undetect...

  • Force of Nature

    Stanley Moodrow - 2

    A psychopath is loose in Brooklyn, and it will take a half-mad cop to catch himA gang of small-time dealers camps out underneath the Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge, slipping hits to passing addicts in exchange for ten bucks a pop. It&rsquo...

  • Forced Entry

    Stanley Moodrow - 3

    Now a PI, Moodrow takes on a pair of crooked real estate developers in Queens Jackson Heights is a quiet neighborhood made up of immigrants, families, and young professionals looking to escape sky-high Manhattan rents. For Marek Najowski, the neig...

  • Bad to the Bone

    Stanley Moodrow - 4

    Known for his anti-drug crusades and his founding of Hanover House, a haven for the human refuse of the city, Davis Craddock leads a double life, enslaving his followers through fear, sexual perversion, murder, and drugs. Reprint....

  • A Piece of the Action

    Stanley Moodrow - 5

    New York City police officer Stanley Moodrow investigates a case that his superiors do not want solved, and his questions lead him to discover devastating secrets lurking in the shadows of the city. Reprint....

  • A Good Day to Die

    Sparks fly when Roland Means, a native American street cop, and Vanessa Bouton, an African-American sergeant, team up to solve two seemingly unrelated cases. By the author of A Piece of the Action. 25,000 first printing....

  • Last Chance for Glory

    A broke PI attempts to prove the innocence of a wrongly convicted homeless man Late at night by posh Gramercy Park, a woman peers into the backseat of a parked car. She's never seen a dead body before, but there's enough blood that she has no doub...

  • Damaged Goods

    Stanley Moodrow - 6

    When her revenge-hungry ex-husband, Jilly, is unexpectedly released from jail, Ann Kalkadonis fights for her four-year-old daughter's life when the latter is kidnapped by Jilly and a former cellmate. 10,000 first printing....

  • The Poster Boy

    This is old-fashioned story-telling at its best. Interesting and involving tales from some of the masters of mysteries.-Michael Connelly, author of Blood WorkDetective Owen Pitt spends a night he won't soon forget - on the other side of the interrog...



  • Trick Me Twice

    He keeps a silent vigil in the woods outside her house and watches every move she makes. He's the only one who knows that this ordinary day will be her last. Slowly, he raises his rifle--and when he pulls the trigger, he doesn't even blink....

  • No Control

    He's a killer with no guilt. No fear. No limits.

    Like every good hunter, he studies his prey.

    He knows their every habit, their every weakness.

    He knows exactly when to strike.

    And when he steps out of the shadows, it's al...

  • Monkey in the Middle

    A mercenary turned hitman. An aging gangster with arthritic knees. A bent cop playing more angles than a Brooklyn pool shark. Which of these men is the hunter? Which the hunted? And who's just the monkey in the middle?...

  • Cracker Bling

    A contemporary New York noir coming-of-age story - Nineteen-year-old Hootie has been in trouble all his life. An outsider, his father was Crow Indian; his mother is black; but Hootie is neither black, nor white, nor Latino, nor Asian. When he meets B...

  • Mercy Killing

    Death’s not so simple when there’s money involved . . . When affluent New Yorker Joyce Hauptman dies suddenly, the investigator suspects something other than natural causes. Joyce’s husband, Charles, stands to inherit her wealth and is the ...

  • Angel Face

    Angel Tamanaka is a beautiful young prostitute working for an escort agency in Manhattan. Leonard Carter is ex Special Forces and has been living off the grid ever since he returned from overseas to work as a hit man. Their two worlds collide when An...

  • Bad Lawyer

    To keep his practice alive, a desperate lawyer takes a case defending a battered wife Just seven years after he left law school, Sid Kaplan was one of New York’s top defense attorneys. With a glittering style and a hunger for competition, he was...

  • Keeplock

    A repeat offender freshly sprung from prison tries to do the impossible: Stay out trouble Peter Frangello hasn’t spent three straight years out of jail since he was sixteen. Now past thirty, he’s nearing parole when his prison block neighbor i...

  • Dancer in the Flames

    The murder of a police officer reveals a world of corruption in this contemporary noir thriller set in New York. When Detective Boots Littlewood’s regular bookie, Drago, reveals that the shooting of police officer Captain Christopher Palmer was no ...

  • The Wrong Side of the Grass

    A truck hijacking on a New York street goes badly awry in this new novel from an author who writes “top-notch hard-boiled crime fiction” (Booklist).   It was a sure thing. A truck with a thousand cartons of cigarettes, at a wholesale price o...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stephen Solomita has published 19 books.

Stephen Solomita does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Wrong Side of the Grass, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Stephen Solomita, A Twist of the Knife, was published in October 1988.

Yes. Stephen Solomita has 1 series.
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