Praise for You Belong to Me


“A classic noir triangle [that] widens quickly to introduce a roundelay of characters with volatile tempers and conflicting agendas . . . The common denominator among them seems to be a voracious hunger: for money, power, revenge . . . deliciously twisty . . . startlingly violent . . . The hard, hot beat of noir goes on.”

– Megan Abbott, The New York Times Book Review

“Brilliant . . . a fast-paced, unexpected hunt—one that includes hitmen, black-market business dealings, and one very valuable map—underscored by Harrison’s profound interrogation of the dynamics between generations, lovers, chasers, and history. The novel is deliciously satisfying, and you come away from it savoring New York of the past and present and all the twisted, nefarious, driven, and even good people—those who think they know where they’re walking—on its many storied streets.”

– Vogue

“Every book-reviewing cliché about a good thriller is not just true about Colin Harrison’s latest novel, but literally true. It really is riveting in the sense that you are not likely to move from your location once you start it. It really is a page-turner, and those pages turn fast. It really does grab you from the first sentence and never let you go. . . . All very satisfying, and highly recommended.”

– Buffalo News

“Chilling and difficult and funny, horrifying and smart. Noir depends on bad decisions, and the novel has plenty of them.”

– Sam Sifton, The New York Times

“Harrison slices a sharp narrative knife through the upper classes of Manhattan. It’s an atmospheric noir that captures the way we live now in chilling, uncomfortable ways. . . [A] quintessentially New York novel.”

– Casey Barrett, The Village Voice

“A tightly wound tale of obsession and betrayal.”

– Publishers Weekly

“You Belong to Me is an intriguing, moody tale of love, lust and avarice—and great summer reading.”

– BookPage

“Gritty whodunit by thriller-meister Harrison, the bard of Gotham mayhem. Harrison’s story moves nimbly. . . . For fans of the Larsson/Ludlum flavor of action-packed, cynical thriller, where no good deed goes unpunished.”

– Kirkus

“Harrison’s ostensibly straightforward fable of obsession and manipulation becomes twisted . . . reaps unexpected rewards.”

– Booklist

“[A] page turning suspense novel.”

– Huffingtonpost.com

Praise for Colin Harrison

“Colin Harrison’s New York is an eye-for-an-eye, dog-eat-dog Darwinian world with similar map coordinates to Tom Wolfe’s Manhattan and the Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy . . . Mr. Harrison combines a Balzacian eye for social detail and a poet’s sense of mood with a sleazily sensationalistic plot . . . He succeeds in giving us a chilling, high-speed roller coaster of a ride that doubles as a sardonic sightseeing tour of the seamier side of New York City.”

– Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“The class act of the urban thriller.”

– Entertainment Weekly

Praise for The Finder

“Harrison will have you gasping for breath in the eyeball-popping opening chapter of The Finder. . . . Harrison writes like Rambo on meth and throws in enough black humor to prove he’s more brains than brawn.”

– USA Today

Praise for Manhattan Nocturne

“A white-knuckle ride . . . With the narrative drive of a hurtling subway express, Harrison plunges readers into a scary subterranean world in which the only comfort comes from the neon flashes of his prose.”

– People

Praise for Afterburn

“Not just a tightly structured novel of suspense but a rich and textured novel. . . . This is a serious, stylish, generously humane work of fiction.”

– Entertainment Weekly

Praise for The Havana Room

“You don’t read Colin Harrison; you devour him, and that sends you back to discover his four earlier New York novels filtered through a film-noir lens. . . . It’s hard to imagine there will be any more books offering more sheer fun than The Havana Room.”

– The Philadelphia Inquirer