Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On thebeat he sells murder tragedy and anything that passes for the truth. At homehe is ... » 

Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On thebeat he sells murder tragedy and anything that passes for the truth. At homehe is a dedicated husband and father. But when a seductive stranger asks him todig into the unsolved murder of her husband he is drawn into a very nasty caseof sexual obsession and blackmailone that threatens his job his marriageand his life. Manhattan Nocturne is a brilliantly drawn tableau of thegritty gaudy city and a thrilling literary noir. «