Welcome to Litsy!

A pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats. Chicky Diaz is everyone�s favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous apartment house in the world, home of celebrities, financiers, and New York�s cultural elite. Up in the penthouse, Emily Longworth has the perfect-looking everything, all except her husband, whom she�d quietly loathed even before the recent revelations about where all the money comes from. But his wealth is immense, their prenup is iron-clad, and Emily can�t bring herself to leave him. Yet. And downstairs in 2a, Julian Sonnenberg�who has carved himself a successful niche in the art world, and led a good half-century of a full and satisfying, cosmopolitan life�has just received a devastating phone call that does nothing at all to alleviate his sense that, probably for better and worse, he has aged out and he�s just not that useful to anyone any more. Meanwhile, gathered in the Bohemia�s bowels, the building�s almost entirely Black and Hispanic, working-class staff is taking in the news that that just a few miles uptown, a Black man has been killed by the police, leading to a demonstration, a counterdemonstration, and a long night of violence across the tinderbox city. As Chicky changes into his uniform for tonight�s shift, he finds himself breaking a cardinal rule of the job: tonight, he�ll be carrying a gun, bought only hours earlier, but before he knew of the pandemonium taking over the city. Chicky knows that there�s more going on in his patch of sidewalk in front of the Bohemia than anyone�s aware of. Tonight in the city, enemies will clash, loyalties will be tested, secrets will be revealed�and lives will be lost.