First published 2015
New Year's Eve 1976 turns deadly when gunshots ring out from Central Park just before midnight. The investigation draws together an unlikely group of New Yorkers whose lives will become permanently intertwined. Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's great fortunes, find themselves pulled into the mystery alongside Keith and Mercer, the men who love them through good times and bad. Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers drawn to the raw energy of New York's punk scene, discover their own connection to the violence. An obsessive journalist pursues the story while an idealistic neighbor and a determined detective work to uncover which of these characters might have been involved in the shooting. Their separate worlds collide as the investigation unfolds, but it's the famous blackout of July 13, 1977 that will transform all their lives forever, revealing the hidden threads that bind them together in ways none of them could have imagined.
Genres: american-fiction, 20th-century, mystery, crime, thriller, 21st-century
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: ensemble-cast, interconnected-stories, mystery
Setting: Central Park, New York
Period: 1976, 1977
1029 pages · Paperback · Atlas Contact