PI Artie Cohen flies to London and battles the Russian mafia, plotting to flood parts of the city in a real-estate scam. A Russian immigrant and former NYPD officer, Cohen is investigating a murder committed in New York.

'You were some dish,' says Betsy Thornhill's boyfriend on seeing an old photograph of her. A casual remark, but Betsy, a fifty-one-year-old American living in London, finds herself conscious of age. She goes in for a 'little work' on her face and comes out looking marvellous, younger by fifteen years. She goes back to New York, where she has not lived for thirty years - to a city devastated by the aftermath of September 11. A few days after she arrives, Betsy is accused of murder. She looks at the police sketch. 'It isn't me,' she says. 'It's someone younger.' 'Look in the mirror,' says the cop. Betsy is trapped by her own face...

'This is jazz-loving, womanising Artie's fourth outing and consolidates his position as fiction's most exciting private dick - and keeps Nadelson up there with the crime greats.' Daily MirrorArtie Cohen's long-time girlfriend Lily Hanes, has been found beaten up, raped and left for dead in an empty Parisian apartment. In the wintry French capital, where drugs are sold like fries at Macdonald's and the hookers are trucked in with the vegetables, Artie looks for Lily's attackers and finds himself drawn in to a web of sex, death and deceit.Artie follows the trail from Paris across Europe to Vienna and then, finally, back to his native New York on a roller-coaster ride from which there is no return ticket.'This book is classy noir entertainment - edgy, witty, slickly plotted... She has a perfect pitch for the voice of her hard-boiled, jazz-loving , skirt-chasing hero.' Independent'Nadelson's skill is in evoking an atmosphere as thick as a nineteenth-century smog, and just as evil.' The Times

It's a summer Sunday in downtown New York City and Artie Cohen is getting married... A message from his old friend Sid McKay asks Artie to come out to Red Hook in Brooklyn. It's his wedding day, but Artie goes - and finds a dead man spread-eagled in the water off the old docks. When Sid shows up he's scared and edgy; Artie suspects he's holding something back... It's not his case, but it drags him in, threatening his friends and a former lover. In the tense pre-election atmosphere, Artie becomes involved in uncovering the betrayals that have led to death on the Red Hook waterfront...

With his wife out of town and his nephew Billy Farone due to be released from the young offenders' institution where he has been serving time since stabbing Heshey Shank to death, Artie Cohen begins to worry when he uncovers evidence that Shank's vengeful family is out to ensure that Billy is locked up for good.

An ex-KGB general has been killed on a live TV show in New York. Artie Cohen, a Russian American Jew and a special detective with the New York Police Department, unravels a Russian plot to acquire the infamous red mercury - a vital ingredient in the making of nuclear weapons.