Thomas Adcock: Grief Street (2020)

From the Publisher:
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 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 on Good Friday. Now, while coping with tensions within the force and an ugly act of retaliation, Hock's also under pressure from a panicked mayor, searching for a suspect whose motives may be rooted in hatred, madness, or dark secrets from decades past...

"Adcock fills the shell of the detective story to the bursting point with Catholic guilt, self-laceration, and spiritual crisis, with a magnificent starring role for Hell's Kitchen." -- Kirkus Reviews

Thomas Adcock: Grief Street. A Neil Hockaday Mystery. MysteriousPress.com / Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504060011 (January, 2020), eBook, 3 MB (ca. 326 p.), $11.99.

Thomas Adcock: Grief Street (2013)

From the Publisher:
NYPD detective Neil Hockaday returns to solve the cases of a murdered rabbi and a Catholic procession sprayed with gunfire in this "beautifully written" addition to the Edgar-winning crime thriller series by Thomas Adcock (The Washington Post).

Acting on his conscience, Neil Hockaday reports a fellow cop for bias and brutality, but just as he takes a risk in-office, a killer on the streets of Manhattan reminds him that not everyone has a mind for morality.

When a rabbi is murdered by a shadowy figure in front of his shocked congregation and a group of Catholics is gunned down on Good Friday, Hock must set his department issues aside and bring justice to the city.

While coping with tensions within the force, an ugly act of retaliation, and the pressures of a panicked mayor, Hock must search for a suspect with motives rooted in hatred, madness, and dark secrets of the past...

Thomas Adcock: Grief Street. A Neil Hockaday Mystery. Gallery Books, ISBN: 9781476763033 (August, 2023), 336 p., $20.99.

Thomas Adcock: Grief Street (1998)

From the Publisher:
Detective Neil Hockaday and his wife are drawn into a killer's savage design, beginning only a few blocks from their home. And now Hock must battle a forcemore powerful than a mere policeman's badge and bullets, a force no less thanthe very essence of evil.

Thomas Adcock: Grief Street. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0671519875 (May, 1998), 320 p., $6.50.

Thomas Adcock: Grief Street (1997)

From the Publisher:
"Neil Hockaday is marvelously drawn." praised the Washington Post Book World of the doubting trish aatholic detective and hero of Thomas Adcock's acclaimed series. Critics have hailed his previous Hockaday novels as "lively and literate" (The New York Times Book Review) and "supremely entertaining" (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Now, in his most powerful work yet, Adcock returns to the place he knows best: Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. Two blacks and a million miles from Broadway, it's where Al Capone was born and Westies thugs once ruled, where modern-day yuppies turn a blind eye to desperate and broken lives embedded in the concrete and clamor of its timeworn streets.

Detectiv Neil Hockaday -- a Kitchen kid to the bone, schooled by nuns and street characters in the New York City art of survival -- has lodged a brutality complaint against a fellow officer, and is therefore self-exiled from NYPD camaraderie. No matter, he is looking forward to the birth of his first child and shopping for a bigger apartment with his wife, the beautiful African-American actress Ruby Flagg. Life is good, and the future looks better -- if only Hock can prevail in some dicey cop politics. But then suddenly, at the convergence of Jewish and Christian holidays, Hock and Ruby are drawn into a killer's savage design, beginning only a few blocks from their home.

The first victim is a friend: a charismatic young rabbi, slain before his own minyan. Fourteen eyewitnesses can tell Hock only that the killer was a "shadow." As Hock investigates, more blood is spilled, and a tabloid reporter connects the murders to Grief Street, the title of a disturbing play sent to Ruby by its anonymous author. The script predicts death to the most devout and charitable residents of Hell's Kitchen.

With mounting public pressure to pull a madman out of darkness, Hock sifts for clues among the living and the dead, all the while watching his back for the threat of angry, rogue cops. From the cruel and embittered Seargeant Joseph "King Kong" Kowalski to the philosophical father Gerald "Creepy" Morrison, a hermit Jesuit priest, Hock confronts men and women shaped and haunted by the gritty world around them. In the end Hock realizes he must battle a force more powerful than a mere policeman's badge and bullets, a force no less than the very essence of evil.

A work of masterful literary detail and spellbinding drama, GRIEF STREET does for New York City what the novels of James Lee Burke do for New Orleans. Passionate, complex and explosive, GRIEF STREET conducts readers on an unforgettable journey as brash and electrifying as Manhattan itself.

Thomas Adcock: Grief Street. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0671519867 (September, 1997), 326 p., $22.00.