Thomas Adcock: Sea of Green (2020)

From the Publisher:
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 NYPD, had a promising meeting scheduled with a snitch -- until his informant turned up dead. Meanwhile, a prominent Harlem preacher with a lot of followers, and friends in high places, has been receiving death threats -- and Hock's assigned to keep Father Love alive and find out who's after him.

But Hock's harrowing work life hits close to home when he discovers a dead body in his own bathtub and must untangle whether -- and how -- all these events are connected...

"A satisfying narrative... Adcock's picture of the Big Apple is not pretty, but it is gripping and effective." -- Publishers Weekly

Thomas Adcock: Sea of Green. A Neil Hockaday Mystery. MysteriousPress.com / Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504060035 (January, 2020), 3 MB (ca. 295 p.), $8.99.

Thomas Adcock: Sea of Green (1989)

From the Publisher:
Police Detective Neil "Hock" Hockaday has just gone through a divorce, which takes him from the suburbs back to his childhood neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen. Only now it's called "Clinton," and it bears little resemblance to the place where he used to shine shoes for spare change and do Sunday duty as an altarboy at Holy Cross. Still, he's happy to spend time in the bars and diners of his old haunt, between stints on the SCUM patrol-Street Crimes Unit Manhattan.

A new case keeps Hock too busy to get overly sentimental about the changes in his old neigh-borhood. No sooner has the department assigned him to investigate death threats against a popular Harlem minister than a series of killings takes place in Hell's Kitchen. The connections between the two cases soon become apparent.

Hock's work takes him into a world polarized between two factions -- one led by a real estate developer with designs on the presidency, the other by the "little" people of Hell's Kitchen he seeks to displace

While Hock wistfully looks back to the more secure world of his past, a very real revolution is taking place both on his own turt and within his heart. SEA OF GREEN is a contemporary and all-too-real story of an old-fashioned cop up against the urban complexities of a very modern city.

Thomas Adcock: Sea of Green. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0892963840 (October, 1989), 295 p., $17.95.