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Red Hook: A Mystery Writer's Guide to the Bricks and the Bodies of the Neighborhood

Gabriel Cohen poses near the Gowanus Canal, the site of one of the bodies that turns up in his first novel, Red Hook. Robert Smith/NPR hide caption

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Red Hook: A Mystery Writer's Guide to the Bricks and the Bodies of the Neighborhood

Writer Gabriel Cohen bases his Detective Jack Leightner series in Brooklyn, where he says the neighborhoods "are not static at all. The lines where things are changing create conflict and sometimes create violence," which is reflected in his books.

Red Hook: A Mystery Writer's Guide to the Bricks and the Bodies of the Neighborhood

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Brooklyn, Floating Bodies Lure Crime Writer Cohen

Writer Gabriel Cohen bases his Detective Jack Leightner series in Brooklyn, where he says the neighborhoods "are not static at all. The lines where things are changing create conflict and sometimes create violence," which is reflected in his books.

Brooklyn, Floating Bodies Lure Crime Writer Cohen

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