William Boyle is an undiscovered gem of a writer who has produced an incredible body of work and this is well up to standard.

He has made the genre of gritty, noir Brooklyn based thrillers his own and this is the heartbreaking tale of two sisters who provoked beyond control make a bad decision and have to try and live with the consequences over the next decades.

The writing is lush and the sense of time and place and the characters themselves brilliantly depicted. I was drawn in from the beginning and absolutely loved this book which is awesome from start to finish.

When Risa's could not take anymore from her violent and abusive husband she snaps and he ends up dead.

She is left with a dilemma report the murder or hide the body..

This is a dark and very real tale. It is asuperbly told and is a well written novel.

Set in the 80's it is reminiscentof the times and I enjoyed my time

recommended read..

Saint of the Narrows is a modern Shakespearean tragedy set against a backdrop of 1980's Brooklyn. It's a dark, gritty character driven read and at its' centre are 4 central characters, Risa, Guilia, Chooch and Fab (Risa's son who ages through the novel). We know from the outset this is going to be a dark, noir read when we see the sisters Risa and Guilia waiting for Sav, Risa's violent husband to return and when he returns we see how a moment in life can change that life forever and impact upon the remainder of it. In a lesser author's hands this novel could have turned into a so so thriller however in the hands of Boyle we get a first class tragic-noir read.

In the vein of the late, great Elmore Leonard, Boyle sidles up like a friend with a good story to tell, his voice easy-going and deceptively relaxed, as he sucks you into a world where ordinary people make bad choices and try their best to live with them. In SAINTS OF THE NARROWS STREET, one bad decision echoes down the decades when a young woman accidentally kills the violent father of her baby and her two best friends help cover it up. But secrets have ways of leaking out, and not just in ways that affect those who intend to keep them... Boyle's latest book is heartbreaking noir that is both inevitably tragic and unexpectedly shocking. An incredible novel and one that makes me want to go back and devour the rest of Boyle's backlist.