A review by tommooney
Gravesend by William Boyle

3.0

GRAVESEND by William Boyle. A dark, sad modern noir that, while not at all original, is well written and very evocative of Brooklyn. Ray Boy Calabrese is just out of prison after serving 16 years for a hate crime that left a gay teenger dead. The victim's brother, Conway, thinks he has more to pay than just prison time. And so follows a plot with other interesting characters twisted in and an explosive ending that leaves a bitter, depressing taste in the mouth. This is all fine and well and I enjoyed reading it. But it's been done a hundred times before (to better and worse extents) by George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane et al.