ARGONAUT BOOKS

A sharp and stylish debut in which an unwitting private eye gets caught up in a crime of obsession between a reclusive literary superstar and her bookseller husband, paying homage to the noir genre just as smartly as it reinvents it. Reviews 'A deliciously smart PI novel set in New York's antiquarian book world that channels Chandler and Chinatown to take us into a recent past that already feels like a bygone era. A brisk, funny, and fabulous debut.' -Adrian McKinty, author of The Island'Murphy's hard-boiled rendering of the city is nothing short of exquisite...Read More