An Honest Living

“Like the best noir practitioners, Murphy uses the mystery as scaffolding to assemble a world of fallen dreams and doom-bitten characters . . . Murphy’s hard-boiled rendering of the city is nothing short of exquisite . . . For anyone who wants a portrait of this New York, few recent books have conjured it so vividly . ” — The New York Times Book Review , Editors’ Choice • A Best Book of the Year from The New Yorker , LitHub , CrimeReads , and more! A sharp and stylish debut from the editor-in-ch