Innocent Monster

Its place in Moe Prager

Innocent Monster is book 6 in the Moe Prager series. It follows Empty Ever After. It is followed by Hurt Machine. See the full Moe Prager reading order.

Moe Prager is a Brooklyn-born, wine-loving ex-NYPD cop turned private investigator, forced off the force by a knee injury sustained during the 1977 New York City blackout — the incident that opens the series and haunts Moe for its remainder. Reed Farrel Coleman built the series less around procedural puzzle-solving than around Moe's slow accumulation of regret: every case reopens some old wound in his own life, whether it's his complicated marriage to Katy, his relationship with his brother Aaron, or the…