Gus Murphy · Book 1
Where It Hurts
- Published
- 26 January 2016
- Pages
- 353
- ISBN-13
- 9780399173035
- Type
- novel

About this book
Where It Hurts is the first novel in Reed Farrel Coleman's Gus Murphy series, a hardboiled mystery title, published in 2016. It opens the series that ran from 2016 to 2017, and is followed by What You Break.
Its place in Gus Murphy
Where It Hurts is book 1 in the Gus Murphy series. It is followed by What You Break. See the full Gus Murphy reading order.
Gus Murphy is a former Suffolk County police officer working security and driving the courtesy van for a rundown Long Island airport hotel, the kind of job he took after a heart attack ended his career and his teenage son's sudden death from an undiagnosed heart condition ended everything else. Where Coleman's Moe Prager novels are elegiac in a controlled, literary way, the two Gus Murphy books are rawer — grief here isn't backstory, it's the weather the whole series lives in, and Gus's marriage is quietly…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399173035
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781504661140