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After Brooklyn mob widow Rena Ruggiero hits her eighty-year-old neighbour Enzio in the head with an ashtray for making an unwanted move on her, she retreats to the Bronx home of her estranged daughter, Adrienne, and her granddaughter, Lucia, only to be turned away at the door. Their neighbour, Lacey 'Wolfie' Wolfstein, a one-time Golden...

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'An Elmore Leonard-style caper that hits the ground running... funny, touching and exhilarating in all the right places' -- Laura Wilson * Guardian *
'Like pantheon authors such as Mark Twain and William Faulkner, Boyle can switch without crashing gears between folk comedy and atrocious horror' -- Basil Ransome-Davies * Shiny New Books *
'A taut and well-paced thriller, with wonderful characterisation, brilliant dialogue and nuggets of wickedly black humour thrown in for good measure' * Tripfiction *
'Acidulously funny' -- Jake Kerridge * Telegraph *
'Hard-boiled caper fiction' -- Ed Needham * Strong Words *

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      Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 21/11/2019
      ISBN13: 9780857301307, 978-0857301307
      ISBN10: 0857301306

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      After Brooklyn mob widow Rena Ruggiero hits her eighty-year-old neighbour Enzio in the head with an ashtray for making an unwanted move on her, she retreats to the Bronx home of her estranged daughter, Adrienne, and her granddaughter, Lucia, only to be turned away at the door. Their neighbour, Lacey 'Wolfie' Wolfstein, a one-time Golden...

      Trade Review
      'An Elmore Leonard-style caper that hits the ground running... funny, touching and exhilarating in all the right places' -- Laura Wilson * Guardian *
      'Like pantheon authors such as Mark Twain and William Faulkner, Boyle can switch without crashing gears between folk comedy and atrocious horror' -- Basil Ransome-Davies * Shiny New Books *
      'A taut and well-paced thriller, with wonderful characterisation, brilliant dialogue and nuggets of wickedly black humour thrown in for good measure' * Tripfiction *
      'Acidulously funny' -- Jake Kerridge * Telegraph *
      'Hard-boiled caper fiction' -- Ed Needham * Strong Words *

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