NYPD Cold Case: The Rosary Bead Murders - Case #14-102

by Andrew G. Nelson

An NYPD Cold Case Novella – From the Author of the James Maguire series.

In 1990, a nineteen-year-old girl became the first victim of the Rosary Bead Killer, who terrorized the city for five years until the murder of a nun gave detectives the break they needed. The arrest of Father Dougal Stewart came as a shock to those who knew him, but the DNA was all the prosecution needed to send him away to prison, and the murders ended; until now.

When the body of a woman is found in a Brooklyn Park, clutching a pair of the killer's trademark rosary beads, NYPD Detective Angelo Antonucci is tasked with taking a closer look into the murder. Is there a copycat killer loose in the city, or has the fallen priest returned to once again prey upon the innocent?

A perfect novella read for procedural fans of James Patterson, Jeff Carson, Michael Connelly and J.D. Robb.

90 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 22, 2018

About the author

Andrew G. Nelson was born and raised in New York City and graduated from the State University of New York. In 2005 he retired as a sergeant from the NYPD after twenty years of service.

He has traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe, something that he draws from in his writing. When he is not reading or writing he can be found engaging in his other passion, collecting and researching police and WWII military memorabilia. He is the author of numerous police procedural novels, focused on the NYPD, as well as a number of non-fiction works.

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Reviews

[Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This...long story? Short novella? needed a much better editor and proofreader than it had. Misused punctuation (it's for its, unnecessary commas all over the place, etc) and erroneous homonyms litter the text, as well as misspelled words and arbitrary italics that are used with no discernible purpose. As for the text, it was like watching an early 80s cop show: okay to fill an hour, but nothing special. For a "case" set in the Catholic milieu, surely the hero would speak of "a rosary", not "a pair of rosary beads". A pair is two, as in a pair of gloves, spectacles, socks etc. A rosary is a rosary, though at a pinch one might speak of "a set" of rosary beads, but only at a pinch.