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Gravesend, Brooklyn, 1986: Risa Franzone lives in a ground-floor\u00a0apartment on Saint of the Narrows Street with her bad-seed\u00a0husband, Saverio, and their eight-month-old baby, Fabrizio. On the\u00a0night Risa\u2019s younger sister, Giulia, moves in to recover from a bad\u00a0breakup, a fateful accident occurs: Risa, boiled over with anger and\u00a0fear, strikes a drunk, erratic Sav with a cast-iron pan, killing him on\u00a0the spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sisters are left with a choice: notify the authorities and make a\u00a0case for self-defense, or bury the man\u2019s body and go on with their\u00a0lives as best they can. In a moment of panic, in the late hours of\u00a0the night, they call upon Sav\u2019s childhood friend\u2014the sweet, loyal\u00a0Christopher \u201cChooch\u201d Gardini\u2014to help them, hoping they can trust\u00a0him to carry a secret like this.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the vast expanse of the next eighteen years, life goes on in\u00a0the working-class Italian neighborhood of Gravesend as Risa, Giulia, Chooch, and eventually Fabrizio grapple with what happened that night.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A standout work of character-driven crime fiction from a celebrated author of the form, Saint of the Narrows Street <\/em>is a searing and richly drawn novel about the choices we make and how they shape our lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n William Boyle is the author of eight books set in and around the southern Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesend, where he was born and raised. His books have been nominated for the Hammett Prize, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award in the UK, and the Grand Prix de Litt\u00e9rature Polici\u00e8re in France, and they have been included on best-of lists in Washington Post, CrimeReads, and more. He currently lives in Oxford, Mississippi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ace Atkins is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author who started his writing career as a crime beat reporter in Florida. Don\u2019t Let the Devil Ride <\/em>is his thirtieth novel. His previous novels include eleven books in the Quinn Colson series and multiple true-crime novels based on infamous crooks and\u00a0killers. In 2010, he was chosen by Robert B. Parker\u2019s family to continue the iconic Spenser series, adding ten novels to the franchise. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi with his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAbout the author\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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