False Negative : A Hard Case Crime Novel - Joseph Koenig

False Negative

A Hard Case Crime Novel

By: Joseph Koenig

Paperback | 5 June 2012

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After getting fired from the Atlantic City Press, journalist Adam Jordan has landed a job writing true crime pieces for Real Detective magazine. The story he's working on now - a beauty contestant found strangled on an Atlantic City beach - is one that boardwalk power brokers would rather see covered up than covered. And if Adam keeps digging, he may find that he's digging his own grave.

About the Author

Nominated for the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel for Floater in 1986, Joseph Koenig followed this debut with three more novels in close succession, culminating with the New York Times Notable Book Brides of Blood in 1993. False Negative is his first new novel in 20 years.
Industry Reviews
"Twenty years after Brides of Blood, Koenig weighs in with another gritty, no-holds-barred, hard-boiled whodunit set in the 1950s. Gifted journalist Adam Jordan, too tired to attend a congressman's routine speech, fakes an article, only to learn later from his editor that the politician dropped dead before going on stage to deliver it. Now a pariah, Jordan manages only to land work with a seedy New York City true crime magazine, Real Detective. When he tries to solve the fetishistic strangulation murder of an attractive 22-year-old waitress found hog-tied on a Long Island beach, his probing leads him to more corpses and a narrow escape from death. Razor-sharp prose (e.g., "Wing's dreams were short on specifics until he was in New York with a knife in his pocket") and a fast-moving plot will please Mickey Spillane and Cornell Woolrich fans. With any luck, readers won't have to wait another 20 years for Koenig's next book." - Publisher's Weekly

Joseph Koenig (author of Little Odessa and Brides of Blood) returns from a 20-year absence from the publishing scene with a whopper of a thriller. While written in modern-day America, Koenig captures all the spirit and flavor of the 1950s. - Celebrity Cafe

"False Negative marks the return of a writer who knows dialog, colorful yet real characters, and how to make an original premise." - Comic Attack

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