A masterwork of modern PI fiction
-Reed Farrel Coleman
Riley King leaps from the page and digs deep to find the truth
-Paul Levine
Richard Neer does a masterful job of building a suspenseful plot
-John Feinstein
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Invisible Airwaves: A Short Story
Greg Campbell is a legendary talk show host who was involuntarily 'retired' years ago. A major newspaper hopes a "Where Are They Now?" piece will give the old radio pioneer long overdue praise for his amazing career The reporter assigned to the story finds a lot more...
The One True Crime
After a long hiatus, here is the new Riley King novel.The One True Crime deals with present and future societal issues, coming at them from both sides. It posits that even though we disagree with folks who vote the other way, we are all Americans who share most common...
Holidays
Radio stations are already playing Christmas music. I used to think that accelerating the Christmas season to begin around Halloween was a cynical trick of capitalism to plant the seeds that it's never too early to find that perfect gift.I still think that's true but...
Ten Riley King books
An acquaintance who had never read any of the Riley King books was looking for something to peruse on vacation, so I gave him a copy of 'Beware of Darkness'.He was reluctant to accept it. "I'm sure it's good and all," he said. "But shouldn't I start at the beginning...
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Invisible Airwaves: A Short Story
Greg Campbell is a legendary talk show host who was involuntarily 'retired' years ago. A major newspaper hopes a "Where Are They Now?" piece will give the old radio pioneer long overdue praise for his amazing career The reporter assigned to the story finds a lot more...
Garden City News Profile
"Adelphi grad, radio star turns mystery novelist" Listeners of WNEW-FM/ WNEW-AM from the 1970s into the early 1990s, or listeners of sports talk radio WFAN since its infancy as a startup station know the distinctive style, voice and unique legacy Richard Neer has...
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Richard's new recording of the classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley, and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. Happy holidays! A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Wrecking Ball
Wrecking Ball is the seventh novel in my Riley King series of mysteries. Some very big changes happen in this one, including the death of an important character. Riley is now living on Hilton Head Island full time. His friend Rick Stone (spoiler if you haven't read...
Richard Neer began his radio career at WLIR, fostering it through its birth as the first suburban progressive station in the nation. WNEW-FM was his radio home for almost thirty years; it was there that he became friends with a fellow Jersey kid named Bruce Springsteen, who called him frequently when he was working the late shift.