"The stunning Saint of the Narrows Street is William Boyle's best novel yet, a vibrant, operatic tale of two resilient, big-hearted sisters and the fateful night that sets their life on a path they never intended. Not since Richard Price has a writer brought New York to such vivid, spectacular life, and Boyle's southern Brooklyn is all his own: a neighborhood pulsing with hard-earned humor, dive-bar pleasures and thunderous heartbreak."
--Megan Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Beware the Woman

"No one can make the everyday vagaries of life feel like Greek tragedies the way William Boyle can. He effortlessly maps the path of desire that moves through the human heart like burning chrome."
--S.A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed

"You don't read a William Boyle novel as much as you inhabit his intricately drawn world. Saint of the Narrows Street is on par with the best of Pete Dexter, Richard Price, and William Kennedy. This is a tour de force, knockout book; an immediate classic that will stay with you long after you finish the last perfect chapter."
--Ace Atkins, New York Times bestselling author of Don't Let the Devil Ride and The Heathens

"Saint of the Narrows Street is a hundred-proof shot of tragic love. Nobody writes like William Boyle. Every character has a huge thumping heart. You can smell the skeevy bars and taste the home-cooked lasagna. Boyle deals in details, but this is a big, epic novel, and it's his best yet."
--Eli Cranor, Edgar Award-winning author of Don't Know Tough

"A new William Boyle novel is always cause for celebration, and Saint of the Narrows Street might be his best work yet. A novel brilliant in structure and in its study of the long-term effects of a single violent crime. Ambitious in scope and impossible to put down. Boyle is that rare writer who is able to walk the line of social commentary and crime thriller."
--Willy Vlautin, author of The Horse

"With Saint of the Narrows Street, a magnum opus of family and crime, blood both shared and spilled, William Boyle proves himself once more the poet laureate of Brooklyn, and a writer of true craft and depth. He shows once more how the crime novel can peer as deep into the human heart as any other artform. William Boyle is the real thing. I don't know how else to say it."
--Jordan Harper, author of Everybody Knows

"With its rich setting, compelling plot and an unforgettable cast of characters--flawed and fascinating and heartbreakingly real--Saint of the Narrows Street will stay with you long after you turn the last page. A classic noir page-turner, it's also a deeply moving story about the dreams that keep us alive--and what happens when those dreams inevitably shatter."
--Alison Gaylin, Edgar Award-winning author of We Are Watching

"William Boyle's Saint of the Narrows Street is incisive, beautiful, brutal--a book that examines what happens in a small world when big secrets are held down. Set in a neighborhood you will smell and feel as if it's your own, this novel presents a cast of characters you'll swear you've known or known about for years, and yet they'll find a way to surprise you. Death echoes, rumors kill, and the living are cursed on Saint of the Narrows Street."
--Henry Wise, author of Holy City

"William Boyle's Saint of the Narrows Street drew me in and wrecked me. A powerful story about the ripple effect of violent acts on the lives of good people. Everyone needs to read this book."
--Nikki Dolson, author of All Things Violent

"William Boyle is the best author far too many have never read. His ability to create distinctive characters, taut plots and striking moods and atmosphere is matched by few and he sets them all in locations that actually become another character through his descriptive prose. Two sisters in a Brooklyn neighborhood live in a culture circumscribed by class, ethnic identity, religion, family ties and loyalty. While trying to withhold a huge secret from being exposed they learn those values that can protect a group can also become a prison, especially when threatened by guilt and remorse. First time readers will discover a superb author, one they will want to share with others."
--Bill Cusumano, Square Books (Oxford, MS)

"This might sound like a bit of an oxymoron, but nobody does dysfunctional family crime like William Boyle. And this is a perfect example of that. One moment in time, a fatal reaction, that festers like a boil for decades until it bursts leaving more lives ruined because of that one hidden act. Brooklyn noir at its best!"
--Pete Mock, McIntyre's Books (Pittsboro, NC)

"Boyle structures the sprawling tale like a Greek tragedy, mining potent themes of legacy and class with such force and empathy that readers may come to think of him as the Balzac of Brooklyn. It's a stunning achievement."
--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"An established noir master, Boyle outdoes himself in crafting a novel of deep dimensions marked by intergenerational trauma, family strife, and failed religion . . . A great, gravely unsettling novel that welcomes repeated readings."
--Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

Praise for William Boyle

"Boyle studies his neighbors with a mixture of affection and despair worthy of a Bruce Springsteen song. He has a real thing for working-class folks. People like this, they need people like Boyle."
―The New York Times Book Review

"[Boyle] knows the music of the Italian American voices, from punk to bar stool to operatic, like nobody else: Mob goons, college dropouts, melancholy widows and pink-haired rockers mix it up in this deliciously convoluted tale that reads like a fresh new season of The Sopranos."
--The Washington Post

"A funny, gritty, touching narrative about the strength of three New York women caught in a world of abusive men, broken families, and mob violence. Crime fiction usually stays within the confines of the genre, but Boyle breaks away from those restrictions."
―NPR

"As wildly funny and sweet as it is frenetic and harrowing, William Boyle's new novel is full of dark splendor. Imagine Martin Scorsese and David O. Russell collaborating with Gena Rowlands and Ellen Burstyn and making magic."
--Megan Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of You Will Know Me

"William Boyle's stark and turbulent crime thriller boasts an endlessly fascinating and empathetic cast of characters. Hailing from Brooklyn himself, Boyle imbues the setting with an air of authenticity and stark realism as his characters leap from the page. Readers can only grasp at the slimmest of hopes in this grim, modern-day noir, but the determination of Boyle's characters defies expectations."
―BookPage, Starred Review

"Boyle's novels always deliver, and they always work on different levels: as noir and crime, as character studies, as working-class social commentaries. They're also impossible to put down and stay with you long after you've finished them."
―Southwest Review

"Masterly literary noir. This mature, nuanced work is a must for George Pelecanos fans."
―Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"Boyle emerges not just as a consummate crime writer but as a poet of the underclass, unwaveringly portraying lives gone wrong but still finding a little moonlight 'spilling its light on the cracks in the sidewalks and all the cracked hearts.'"
―Booklist, Starred Review