Wednesday, December 24, 2025

The best noir fiction of 2025: "CrimeReads"

One novel on the CrimeReads list of the best noir fiction released in 2025:
Saint of the Narrows Street, William Boyle

Boyle continues filling out the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn with powerful, emotionally complex crime stories. In Saint of the Narrows Street, two sisters arrange for a terrible secret to be hidden, reverberating across the generations. Boyle’s work is always traced with melancholy and never shies away from the tough moral predicaments his characters face.
Read about another entry on the list.

The Page 69 Test: Saint of the Narrows Street.

My Book, The Movie: Saint of the Narrows Street.

--Marshal Zeringue