Saint of the Narrows Street
by William Boyle
Buy on AmazonAs an Italian American family's decades-old secret begins to unravel, they will have to bear the consequences—and face each other—in this thrilling south Brooklyn-set tragic opera of the highest caliber from crime fiction luminary William Boyle. William Boyle is the master of Brooklyn-set crime fiction and Saint of the Narrows Street is his magnum opus. For fans of The Sopranos, Jonathan Lethem, and Dennis Lehane. Gravesend, Brooklyn, 1986: Risa Franzone lives in a ground-floor apartment on Saint of the Narrows Street with her bad-seed husband, Saverio, and their eight-month-old baby, Fabrizio.…
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"William Boyle has built a devout readership by delivering novels about normal people who get caught up in bad situations, and this one is his best work yet. It’s a heartbreaking tale of loss, anger, grief, poverty, the varying strength of familial bonds and how an accidental death can haunt a family for generations. Boyle is a master at making the ordinary important, the everyday special. A dark novel with a beautiful, broken heart."
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