Book One of the Cold Iron Trilogy · Available now
Iron Summer
The dead don’t stay down in New Amsterdam. Somebody’s making sure of it.
August 1947. A heat wave has the city by the throat. An industrialist lies dead in a locked penthouse sixty floors above Wall Street, drained white without a drop of blood spilled. An hour later, the corpse gets up and tries to kill the detective who called him.
The Series
The Cold Iron Trilogy
New Amsterdam, 1947. Blood-drinkers work the night shift, the fae hide behind the billboards, and a treaty keeps them all a secret. Detective Jake Morrison came home from Omaha Beach with a piece of shrapnel near his heart. The iron lets him see the hidden side, and every fight moves it a little closer.
Book One · Available now
Iron Summer
August 1947. Three keepers of the secret are dead, and none of them stayed down.
Book Two · Coming 2027
Iron Winter
December 1947. The registered are disappearing, and the trail leads to Mercy Island.
Book Three
In progress
Book Three · Title to come
Untitled
The conclusion of the Cold Iron Trilogy.
Book Two · Coming in 2027
Iron Winter
In New Amsterdam, the registered are disappearing. On paper, they all caught pneumonia. On the same afternoon.
December 1947. To find out where they went, Jake Morrison takes a dead man’s registration card and lets the city ship him out with the coffins to Mercy Island.
The Author
Patrick Moore
Patrick Moore writes hard-boiled urban fantasy: crime stories where the shadows have teeth. He has spent twenty-five years in communications and teaches writing at the college and university level, so he knows exactly how much work a single sentence can do. The Cold Iron Trilogy is where he finally puts those sentences to work for himself.
Dispatches
Latest News
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Iron Summer: Chapter 1
Dead Man Walking The phone rang at ten past midnight, which meant somebody was dead. In this town, at that hour, it…
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Iron Winter is coming in 2027
Book two of the Cold Iron Trilogy takes Jake Morrison to Mercy Island in the dead of winter, 1947.