NYT
“Fierce and Terrific.”
Chicago Tribune
“Cult classic.”
Strand Magazine
“Chilling. The new voice of noir.”
LA Times
“Blazing. Life in the wrong lane.”

CST
“Sensational.”

EW
“Firecracker. Lit-fuse urgency.”

EW
“Relentless. A work of art.”

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Chicago has always been a slaughterhouse.

Awash in violent rhetoric, facing bankruptcy and a federal takeover of its police department, Chicago is thirty-six hours from imploding into a race war. Canaryville will be the flashpoint—violent, insular, bare-knuckle Irish, and fiercely defensive of what little neighborhood it has left.

NOW AVAILABLE

Chicago has always been a slaughterhouse.

Awash in partisan rhetoric, facing bankruptcy and a federal takeover of its police department, Chicago is thirty-six hours from imploding into a race war. Canaryville will be the flashpoint—violent, insular, bare-knuckle Irish, and fiercely defensive of what little neighborhood it has left.

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Taut, gripping, and hauntingly dark. This is Charlie Newton at his best.
—Robert Dugoni, bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite series

Charlie Newton is one of my favorite writers, and he keeps getting better, which is scary. Canaryville sizzles. It burns with the kind of passion that makes Chicago beautiful and brutal.
—Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author

Charlie Newton’s crime fiction thrillers are like ticking narrative time bombs, exploding with existential brutality and blood-soaked enlightenment when readers least expect it. Canaryville is Newton at his best—unapologetically audacious and always seconds away from a jaw-dropping, skull-crushing detonation.
—Paul Goat Allen

Newton’s willingness to accept racism on its face rather than massage out some of the ugliness in otherwise sympathetic characters breathes fire into every aspect of this story and allows Chicago, or at least a part of it, to become an organism onto itself… (read more)
—Don Evans on NewCity

Award Nominations

Edgar® Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
UK Crime Writers’ Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Best Thriller
International Thriller Writers Association Thriller Award
Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel
American Library Association Best Crime Novel Debut
Winner of American Book Fest’s International Book Award (for Thriller/Adventure)