![]() He proves that it is all one story-and one that will keep readers enthralled. etina (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) EspaƱol. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Martins Paperbacks edition, Mass Market Paperback in English. Manhattan Nocturne: A Novel - Ebook written by Colin Harrison. His prose brims with the anguish and joy, the guilt and regret and recklessness, of hundreds of the city's voices. But when a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her husband, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail-one. Manhattan Nocturne by Colin Harrison, February 3, 2004, St. But as Wren was advised years earlier by a washed-up journalist, ""It's all one story."" Harrison shows the truth of this maxim as he deftly connects dozens of far-flung characters-a pair of sad, dotty lawyers in Queens, a spurned lover who shot his fiancee, a nanny in Wren's service-and as many Manhattan locales into a breathtaking collage. All Caroline asks is that Wren find the original video, which has nothing to do with Simon's death-maybe. Her current predicament concerns the monstrous billionaire who owns Wren's paper, and who believes a mystery video that has been turning up repeatedly in his office must be coming from her. and Jennifer Beals A New York Times Notable Book Porter Wren is a Manhattan. Crowley was found mysteriously dead in a Lower East Side lot more than a year later, his murder remains unsolved, but that doesn't seem to be foremost on Caroline's mind. Previously published as Manhattan Nocturne and now a major motion picture. ![]() Not even Wren's native cynicism cues him to Caroline's real intentions until he has compromised himself and his family's safety. Manhattan Nocturne is a brilliantly drawn tableau of the gritty, gaudy city, and a thrilling literary noir. ![]() The nostalgia is so palpable that the opening scenes conjure images of a jaded reporter sidling through the city's midnight shadows, intent on getting ""the story."" Porter Wren (returning from earlier Harrison novels) is a columnist for a New York daily tabloid, happily married with two kids and a terrifying mortgage, when he's approached at a swank party by a woman who in earlier parlance would have been called a ""dame."" She's Caroline Crowley, widow of hot young filmmaker Simon Crowley. But when a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her husband, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail-one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life. If it weren't for the miles of dangerous videotape that snake through this marvelous story, binding its participants to each other and to their ever more elaborate lies, Harrison's latest (after Bodies Electric) could take place in the Manhattan of 40 years ago. ![]()
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