An Honest Living A Novel Dwyer Murphy by Dwyer Murphy 9780593489246, 0593489241, B09KGJ49NB instant download after payment.

"Like the best noir practitioners, Murphy uses the mystery as scaffolding to assemble a world of fallen dreams & 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

After leaving behind the comforts & the shackles of a prestigious law firm, a restless attorney makes ends meet in mid-2000s Brooklyn by picking up odd jobs from a colourful assortment of clients. When a mysterious woman named Anna Reddick turns up at his apartment with ten thousand dollars in cash & asks him to track down her missing husband Newton, an antiquarian bookseller who she believes has been pilfering rare true crime volumes from her collection, he trusts it will be a quick & easy case. 

But when the real Anna Reddick - a magnetic but unpredictable literary prodigy - lands on his doorstep with a few bones to pick, he finds himself out of his depth, drawn into a series of deceptions involving Joseph Conrad novels, unscrupulous booksellers, aspiring flaneurs, & seedy real estate developers.

Set against the backdrop of New York at the tail end of the analog era & immersed in the worlds of literature & bookselling, An Honest Living is a gripping story of artistic ambition, obsession, & the small crimes we commit against one another every day.