Cherise Wolas's Reviews > An Honest Living

Atmospheric and stylish quasi-noir set in 2005-2006 in NYC and Brooklyn. Atypical mystery in that the ending is left open, the case is not solved, but the ride along the way is both fun and thoughtful, and features an enticing cast of characters - a minx, a fence, a famous young novelist, a would-be real estate developer, a poet. I'd read another book featuring this mostly unnamed protagonist, his name apparently is quite similar to the author's, and he is, like the author, a former big-firm lawyer, who skedaddled away from the grind of big firm practice to work on his own taking on small cases and doing favors, a man in his mid-30s, making his way in the city, rougher-edged then before all the big development got its paws on the place, tasked with a case set in the world of rare books that he can't let go.