Nightswimming

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Paterson New Jersey 1979: Jamie Palmieri is an up-and-coming patrol officer three years out of the academy and frustrated with his slow rise to detective. That all changes one frigid night in January when a double homicide at a local bar leaves the owner and a young woman dead. In the wake of the Rubin Hurricane Carter proceedings and the city's lingering distrust for the police Jamie is told to expect a no one saw a thing investigation. But as Jamie traces a series of small leads he's sent on a path where the tables turn suddenly - with the still-unknown killer now stalking Jamie and the people he's closest to.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A classic police procedural charged with the social turbulence of the 1970s.</span></p><p></p><p><strong>Editorial Reviews</strong></p><p></p><p>A New and Noteworthy Selection<em> The New York Times</em> (2025)</p><p>Anagnos smartly uses the structure of the police procedural to probe the ways in which the</p><p>1970s were both an incredibly progressive and sneakily regressive time for women - and the</p><p>ways men struggled to keep up when things were changing at such a dizzying clip...and brings</p><p>Paterson at this juncture to vivid life.</p><p><strong>- Sarah Weinman <em>The New York Times</em> <em>Book Review</em></strong></p><p></p><p>...debut novelist Anagnos sweats so many procedural details of Jamie's painstaking</p><p>investigation that you'll sweat along with him. The real star of this show is Paterson which feels</p><p>as menacing vivid and multilayered as Walter Mosley's Watts.<strong><em> </em>-<em>Kirkus Review</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Contemplative pacy and with a setting so vivid you can taste the industrial grit on your tongue.</p><p>Paterson New Jersey in the late 1970s is not a place I've ever yearned to visit; by the time I</p><p>reached the propulsive climax of Anagnos's story I never wanted to leave.</p><p><strong>-Kat Rosenfield author of the Edgar Award-nominated thriller <em>No One Will Miss Her</em></strong></p><p></p><p><em>Nightswimming</em> is my favorite kind of crime novel-rich character-driven crime that drops me</p><p>right into the action. Melanie Anagnos beautifully conjures a 1970s Paterson New Jersey that</p><p>feels so lived in I practically teleported. This is just the best kind of noir-a crime as complex</p><p>and relevant today as it ever was a world where one good man can still make a difference. I</p><p>cannot wait to dive back into the world of Jamie Palmieri!</p><p><strong>-Halley Sutton <em>USA Today</em> bestselling author of <em>The Hurricane Blonde</em></strong></p><p></p><p>... all the intrigue twists turns and danger one would hope for in a great crime novel. Anagnos</p><p>has written a compassionate emphatic sweet and sexy protagonist who I not only like but</p><p>love...A page turner is an understatement. <em>Nightswimming</em> pulls you in and doesn't let you go.</p><p><strong>-Patricia TM Dunn author of the award-winning novel <em>Her Father's Daughter</em></strong></p>