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  1. Review: 'An Honest Living,' by Dwyer Murphy

    Dwyer Murphy's first novel, "An Honest Living," is an updated detective story immersed in the worlds of rare books and real estate.

  2. AN HONEST LIVING

    A bittersweet love letter to New York and times gone by. More style than substance, but fans of noir fiction will feel right at home. 1. Pub Date: July 26, 2022. ISBN: 978--59-348924-6. Page Count: 288. Publisher: Viking. Review Posted Online: May 10, 2022. Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 2022.

  3. An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy

    AN HONEST LIVING easily could be considered somewhat autobiographical. Dwyer Murphy practiced law at the New York City firm of Debevoise & Plimpton before leaving to become editor-in-chief of CrimeReads, one of the most popular websites for devotees of crime, mystery and detective works.The lead character in Murphy's narrative is also an attorney, who left a large law firm to go it alone in ...

  4. An Honest Living

    AN HONEST LIVING easily could be considered somewhat autobiographical. Dwyer Murphy practiced law at the New York City firm of Debevoise & Plimpton before leaving to become editor-in-chief of CrimeReads, one of the most popular websites for devotees of crime, mystery and detective works.The lead character in Murphy's narrative is also an attorney, who left a large law firm to go it alone in ...

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    Regardless of the reasons for their inclusion, they are clever and smoothly written. Though it's probably too soon to feel nostalgia for 2005, when Dwyer Murphy's An Honest Living begins, this territory-marking debut is seductively steeped in motifs reminiscent of the golden age of noir.

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    BOOK REVIEW 'An Honest Living': A modern noir Readers don't need to go back in time to read about a corrupted and confusing world. By Anthony Domestico Globe Correspondent, Updated July 21, ...

  7. An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy

    After leaving behind the comforts and the shackles of a prestigious law firm, a restless attorney makes ends meet in mid-2000s Brooklyn by picking up odd jobs from a colorful assortment of clients. When a mysterious woman named Anna Reddick turns up at his apartment with $10,000 in cash and asks him to track down her missing husband Newton, an antiquarian bookseller who she believes has been ...

  8. An Honest Living: A Novel: Murphy, Dwyer: 9780593489246: Amazon.com: Books

    An Honest Living: A Novel. Hardcover - July 26, 2022. by Dwyer Murphy (Author) 3.6 364 ratings. See all formats and editions. Book Description. Editorial Reviews. "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 ...

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  10. An Honest Living: A Novel

    Publishers Weekly's starred review says that this "novel of small tragedies" is "Roy's best to date." (Carolyn) An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy: Murphy, a former litigator and the editor-in-chief at CrimeReads, has produced an engaging noirish debut novel. A freelance lawyer in mid-aughts Brooklyn is approached by a mysterious ...

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    The following is from Dwyer Murphy's debut An Honest Living. An unwitting private eye gets caught up in a crime of obsession between a reclusive literary superstar and her bookseller husband, paying homage to the noir genre just as smartly as it reinvents it. Murphy practiced law at Debevoise & Plimpton and served as editor of the Columbia Law ...

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    An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy. Viking ... a rare book dealer who she claims sold off valuable titles from the family collection, to fund their divorce. Easy enough, until the real Anna Reddick, a celebrated novelist, shows up on the lawyer's doorstep looking for the man who slandered her husband. ... Most LJ reviews are exclusive to ...

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    About An Honest Living. A sharp and stylish novel from the editor-in-chief of CrimeReads in which an unwitting private eye gets caught up in a crime of obsession between a reclusive literary superstar and her bookseller husband, paying homage to the noir genre just as smartly as it reinvents it After leaving behind the comforts and the shackles of a prestigious law firm, a restless attorney ...

  14. An Honest Living: A Novel

    Author Dwyer Murphy. Publisher Viking. Publication Date 2022-07-26. Section Mystery. Type New. Format Hardcover. ISBN 9780593489246. "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 ...

  15. An Honest Living: A Novel

    "— The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice. A Best Book of the Year from The New Yorker, LitHub, CrimeReads, and more! ... An Honest Living is a gripping story of artistic ambition, obsession, and the small crimes we commit against one another every day. Read more

  16. Book Marks reviews of An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy

    An Honest Living resolves some of its plot mysteries but not all of them. It introduces us to various worlds-within-worlds—the antiquarian book trade; big city law firms — but refuses to neatly tie them all together. The novel concludes, no spoiler here, with this sentence: 'I closed my eyes and in the wind was a trace of salt.'.

  17. An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy

    An Honest Living. Dwyer Murphy. Viking, $26 (288p) ISBN 978--593-48924-6. The New York attorney who narrates Murphy's uneven debut—who is unnamed but hints he has a name similar to the author ...

  18. a book review by Jane Simon Ammeson: An Honest Living: A Novel

    An Honest Living is New York through and through from the scenes that our detective spies from the G Train and the window of his brownstone or the streets he walks littered with trash and 24-hour diners. It's Manhattan before the financial meltdown—urban, somewhat gritty, and unhomogenized. Murphy has taken that time period and our ...

  19. My Review of 'An Honest Living'

    My book review of AN HONEST LIVING by Dwyer Murphy.You can find all my reviews, books and more here: https://www.debbimack.com/blogPlease support my fundrais...

  20. An Honest Living: A Novel|Paperback

    —Los Angeles Review of Books "An Honest Living is a novel about ambition and obsession, shadow and light, smoke and mirrors—a shimmering, ... "Dwyer Murphy's An Honest Living is the lawyer-book-collector noir you never knew you craved. Evocative and suspenseful, the book hums along in an unusual space somewhere in the constellation of ...

  21. An Honest Living: A Novel Kindle Edition

    An Honest Living: A Novel - Kindle edition by Murphy, Dwyer. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading An Honest Living: A Novel. ... " — The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice • A Best Book of the Year from The New Yorker ...

  22. PDF An honest living: a novel book review

    An honest living book review. THE HONEST LIFE - Dwyer Murphy At the beginning of Dwyer Murphy's humorous detective novel The Honest Life, the narrator, a disaffected attorney for a prestigious Manhattan law firm, receives a parting gift from a client: a baseball bat with his name engraved on it. half Dwight Murphy - We read. ...

  23. An Honest Living

    With beauty and fierce intelligence, An Honest Living demonstrates Salaita's powers as a compelling storyteller with a highly original, bold, and always interesting mind, and unshakeable integrity. At times providing sharply satirical accounts of the corporate, settler colonial university, at other times, sharing intimate and moving meditations on fatherhood, exile, education, and freedom ...