The Naked Butterfly

The twelfth in the acclaimed Riley King private investigator series

The One True Crime

The eleventh in the acclaimed Riley King private investigator series

A Royal Flush

You’ve been dealt the perfect hand: Four Human stories, one canine tale: Vintage Riley King.

Beware of Darkness

The tenth in the acclaimed Riley King private investigator series

Nowhere Man

The ninth in the acclaimed Riley King private investigator series

Jackson's Book

Riley King uses a down period in his investigations business to help an old man with Alzheimer’s memorialize his incredible heroic past.

Brilliant Disguise

 A gorgeous reality show star is missing. Her rough-hewn husband is her suspected killer. Are the police rousting an innocent man, or is Boomer Purdy not what he appears to be?

Three Chords and the Truth

Jason Black became a rock star over forty years ago but his big break was achieved by ruthlessly betraying someone he loved. Now the FBI threatens to upend his life and reveal his secret if he doesn’t cross that line again.

Wrecking Ball

The seventh in the acclaimed Riley King private investigator series

An American Storm

The sixth book in the acclaimed Riley King private investigator series

The Punch List

The fifth book in the acclaimed Riley King private investigator series

The Last Resort

The fourth book in the acclaimed Riley King private investigator series

Indian Summer

The third book in the acclaimed Riley King private investigator series

The Master Builders

The second book in the acclaimed Riley King private investigator series

Something of the Night

The first book in the acclaimed Riley King private investigator series

Spirits in the Night

New free Riley King short story

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.

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

  Blog

Mr. Anonymous

Leakers! Whistleblowers! Cowards! Have the courage to put your name on it! That's the reaction we are hearing from many players, coaches and even politicians about those who tell stories without attribution. As a fan or just a citizen, we need to value those who come...

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Vote early and often

Sunday's Giants-49ers game is shaping up as a referendum on the future of Ben McAdoo. Reports of dissension in the locker room and players quitting on the team have dominated the headlines, all of course, denied by the coaches and on the record players. Right now,...

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Hot Stove Time

Now that the World Series is over, after a minute to take a breath, the Hot Stove Season begins. For the Yankees, Tanaka has three days to opt out of his deal. I think he won't. If he does, the Yanks have their first big decision to make, if they haven't already done...

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50 Years On

I had a wonderful long conversation with Dennis Elsas last night, reminiscing about WNEW-FM, which hit the airwaves for the first time as a progressive (underground, meaningful music, free form, call it what you will) radio station fifty years ago tonight. I wrote a...

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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.

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