E.J. Copperman. Crooked Lane, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-62953-599-9
A fictional character comes to life in this entertaining series launch from Copperman (Ghost in the Wind). Novelist Rachel Goldman is starting revisions on her fifth mystery featuring Duffy Madison, consultant to a New Jersey prosecutor’s office,...
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E.J. Copperman. Midnight Ink (www.midnightinkbooks.com), $14.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7387-4151-2
This delightful and clever mystery from Copperman (The Thrill of the Haunt) introduces an unusual protagonist: Samuel Hoenig, who has learned to cope with his Asperger's syndrome sufficiently enough to open New Jersey–based firm Questions Answered....
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E.J. Copperman and Jeff Cohen. Midnight Ink (midnightinkbooks.com), $14.99 trade paper (312p) ISBN 978-0-7387-4350-9
In the captivating sequel to 2014’s
The Question of the Missing Head from Copperman (the pseudonym of Jeff Cohen), Samuel Hoenig, a highly unusual investigator who runs a little service in Piscataway, N.J., called Questions Answered, puts the...
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E.J. Copperman and Jeff Cohen. Midnight Ink, $14.99 paperback (312p) ISBN 978-0-7387-4351-6
Samuel Hoenig, proprietor of Questions Answered, a Piscataway, N.J., shop where one can have all sorts of questions answered, takes on a real puzzler in Copperman and Cohen’s winning third Asperger’s mystery (after 2015’s The Question of the...
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E.J. Copperman. Crooked Lane, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-68331-130-0
Copperman’s sequel to 2016’s Written Off manages to keep the quirky conceit of the series fresh and charming—an agnosticism over whether investigator Duffy Madison somehow became a living person five years ago through crime writer Rachel Goldman’s...
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E.J. Copperman. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-08427-9
At the start of this nifty series launch from Copperman (Edited Out), animal talent agent Kay Powell is at an audition. Her client, fluffy, keen Bruno, looks likely to be cast as Sandy in famed director Les McMaster’s Broadway production of Annie....
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E.J. Copperman. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-68331-450-9
Copperman’s Haunted Guesthouse series graduates from mass market to hardcover with the enjoyable ninth entry (after 2016’s Spouse on Haunted Hill). While renovating an old inn on the Jersey Shore, licensed PI Alison Kerby received a blow on the head
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E.J. Copperman. Minotaur, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-08429-3
In Copperman’s charming second Agent to the Paws mystery (after 2017’s Dog Dish of Doom), Amazon parrot Barney, who acts on a zombie-themed TV show shooting in Manhattan, is the sole witness to the murder of star Dray Mattone in his trailer. Animal...
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E.J. Copperman and Jeff Cohen. Midnight Ink, $14.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-7387-5079-8
A letter written by Samuel Hoenig’s father, Reuben, who left the family when Samuel was four, to Samuel’s mother, Vivian, propels the action of Copperman and Cohen’s charming fourth Asperger’s mystery (after 2016’s The Question of the Felonious...
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E.J. Copperman and Jeff Cohen. Midnight Ink, $15.99 trade paper (312p) ISBN 978-0-7387-5061-3
Copperman and Cohen’s uneven fifth Asperger’s mystery (after 2017’s The Question of the Absentee Father) finds Samuel Hoenig, owner of New Jersey’s Questions Answered agency, and his associate, Janet Washburn, on opposite sides of their latest...
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E.J. Copperman. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-68331-887-3
In Copperman’s lively 10th Haunted Guesthouse mystery (after 2018’s The Hostess with the Ghostess), Alison Kerby—who has no problem with otherworldly investigators haunting her inn at the Jersey Shore—is disturbed when a Lincoln Continental...
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E.J. Copperman. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9098-6
Copperman’s terrific sequel to Inherit the Shoes finds attorney Sandy Moss, formerly an assistant county prosecutor in New Jersey, working for a prestigious L.A. firm specializing in family law. When TV actor Patrick McNabb, a friend of Sandy’s and...
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E.J. Copperman. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5076-8
In Copperman’s outstanding third Jersey Girl legal mystery (after 2021’s Judgment at Santa Monica), Sandy Moss, a former New Jersey prosecuting attorney who moved to Los Angeles two years earlier to practice family law, has proven herself with her...
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E.J. Copperman. Severn, $29.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5077-5
At the start of Copperman’s sparkling fourth mystery wittily narrated by Sandy Moss, a former New Jersey prosecutor now working as head of the criminal justice division in a Los Angeles family law firm (after Witness for the Persecution), 11-year-old
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E.J. Copperman. Severn, $31.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0970-2
Copperman (And Justice for Mall) launches a light and lively paranormal-tinged series featuring New York City–based sister-and-brother detective team Fran and Ken Stein. The tall, strapping siblings are more than just average gumshoes: they’re “genet
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E.J. Copperman. Severn House, $31.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0971-9
Copperman’s witty fifth courtroom cozy narrated by attorney Sandy Moss (after 2022’s And Justice for Mall) sees the heroine hopping from L.A. to her hometown of Woodbridge, N.J. She’s headed east to attend the nuptials of her cousin Stephanie (aka “S
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E.J. Copperman. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9084-9
Former New Jersey prosecutor Sandy Moss, the narrator of this amiable if flawed series launch from Copperman (the Asperger’s mysteries), has relocated to L.A. to take a job with a family law firm, where she gets off to a rocky start. At a divorce...
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