The Books

The Cold Iron Trilogy

Hard-boiled urban fantasy set in New Amsterdam in the years after the war, where a treaty keeps the hidden side hidden and one detective carries the iron that lets him see it.

Iron Summer by Patrick Moore, book cover

Book One · Available now

Iron Summer

The dead don’t stay down in New Amsterdam. Somebody’s making sure of it.

August 1947. Industrialist Thomas Kellerman is dead in his locked penthouse, drained white without a drop of blood spilled. An hour later, the corpse gets up and tries to kill the detective who called him. With Victory Day days away, someone is building toward a resurrection the whole city will see.

Iron Winter by Patrick Moore, book cover

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. Under Commissioner Walsh’s Iron Ordinance, everyone from the hidden side carries an iron tag and a number. Now the transfers to Special Facility No. 2 are one way, and the trail leads across the Sound to Mercy Island.