Ray Carney's world brings the furniture trade into contact with criminal business and the continuing transformations of Harlem.
Colson Whitehead's setting allows a private ambition to sit inside a much larger urban history. The attraction is the movement between business, neighbourhood observation and danger. Choose this for crime-inflected fiction in which the city is an active pressure on the character's decisions.
WHO IS IT FOR?
For readers who enjoy investigations, uncertain loyalties and secrets with consequences.
