At the outset of 1973, Alphonse Giordano is the unquestioned king of the New York underworld, supported by a secret society of enforcers, earners, and influencers who manipulate the city conditions to their own ends.
An international murder thriller, this book follows me from when I left UPenn undergrad to travel to southern France, so I could explore the Cote du d'azur.
When art conservator JJ Jego spots a long-lost masterpiece through the window of a luxury apartment, she's drawn into a dark web of intrigue, deception and murder.
'One of the most remarkable and, in the English-speaking world at least, one of the most inexplicably underappreciated French writers of the twentieth century' John Banville, New York Review of BooksEnter the world of Pascal Garnier, where life's misfits take centre stage, there is drama in the everyday and the unexpected is always just around the corner.
Nominated for the Edgar Award and the Anthony AwardViolet Hart is a photographer who has always returned to cobble out a life for herself in the oddly womblike interiors of Detroit.
From the bestsellingauthor of the American in Paris mysteries featuring Julia Child's best friend, and the Phyllida Bright mysteries featuring Agatha Christie's fictional housekeeper, this intriguing mystery stars quick-witted Adam Quinn, President Lincoln's newly hired aide, on a momentous day .
