The novel was published in America in hardcover by Crown and remains in print by Picador in trade paperback.

[1] Porter Wren is a columnist and crime reporter for a New York City newspaper.

He attends an after-work party hosted by the publishing magnate, where he meets Caroline Crowley.

Caroline invites him to her apartment where she shows him confidential police reports related to the death of her husband.

A movie version retitled Manhattan Night was filmed in New York in late 2014, directed by Brian DeCubellis and starring Adrien Brody, Yvonne Strahovski, Campbell Scott and Jennifer Beals.