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A starred Publishers Weekly review!
A starred BookPage review!
Reviewed by Scott Adlerberg in Mystery Tribune
Reviewed by E.A. Aymar in The Washington Post
Listed as one of the most anticipated crime books of 2025 over at CrimeReads
An Amazon Editors’ Pick: Best Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense Books of February
Interviewed by Drew Buxton over at Write or Die
Included on Publishers Weekly 2025 Spring Preview: Mysteries & Thrillers
I wrote about the influence of kitchen-sink realism on Saint of the Narrows Street for CrimeReads
I wrote about Catholic-haunted books that inspired my Catholic-haunted book for Electric Lit
I made a playlist for Saint of the Narrows Street for Largehearted Boy
My launch day event at Square Books with Ace Atkins
Interviewed by Patrick Millikin and Jen Johans of the Poisoned Pen
Interview with Carol Ann Tack for Top Shelf podcast.
Praise for Saint of the Narrows Street:
“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 Streetwill 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)
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