Philly Author’s ‘Confession’: I Lived These Stories

Philadelphia may be called the City of Brotherly Love, but author Solomon Jones sees the sadder, more complex side of the city.

Jones’ books feature Philly police detective Mike Coletti. When we meet him in The Last Confession, he’s on the verge of retirement, but before he can head off into the sunset, he’s got to confront some demons from his past and catch a serial killer calling himself the Angel of Death.

Angels are a repeating motif in The Last Confession, which kicks off with the discovery of a body in Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, right underneath a giant statue known as the Angel of the Resurrection. The dead man is a priest who witnessed a murder, “so at this point, my antagonist, the Angel of Death, is killing off people and setting up this final confrontation,” Jones says.