**“Gothic chill wafts like ocean mist throughout this tale of college friends reuniting at an old house one them has inherited.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh AirWhen a group of old college friends reunites for a summer vacation at a beach house in coastal Massachusetts, a sudden disappearance and the arrival of a seductive stranger threaten to unearth the darkest secrets of their relationships.**As they hurtle into midlife, Jim and his closest college frien...

**“A perfect summer escape.” *—*Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air“A twisty, enthralling heist yarn . . . loaded with the threat of a double cross any time. . . . smart and satisfying.”—The New York Times, Editors' ChoiceAdrift in a sleepy coastal Massachusetts town, a man who ferries fugitives by day gets twisted up in a plot to pilfer diamonds in this Casablanca-infused heist novel.**Jack might be a polished, Harvard-educated lawyer on pape...

**“A perfect summer escape.” *—*Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air“A twisty, enthralling heist yarn . . . loaded with the threat of a double cross any time. . . . smart and satisfying.”—The New York Times, Editors' ChoiceAdrift in a sleepy coastal Massachusetts town, a man who ferries fugitives by day gets twisted up in a plot to pilfer diamonds in this Casablanca-infused heist novel.**Jack might be a polished, Harvard-educated lawyer on pape...

*“Like the best noir practitioners, Murphy uses the mystery as scaffolding to assemble a world of fallen dreams and 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, Editors’ Choice• A Best Book of the Year from The New Yorker, LitHub, CrimeReads, and ...

**“Gothic chill wafts like ocean mist throughout this tale of college friends reuniting at an old house one them has inherited.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh AirWhen a group of old college friends reunites for a summer vacation at a beach house in coastal Massachusetts, a sudden disappearance and the arrival of a seductive stranger threaten to unearth the darkest secrets of their relationships.**As they hurtle into midlife, Jim and his closest college frien...

*“Like the best noir practitioners, Murphy uses the mystery as scaffolding to assemble a world of fallen dreams and 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, Editors’ Choice• A Best Book of the Year from The New Yorker, LitHub, CrimeReads, and ...