Danny Leigh's new novel brings together two disparate characters: Wilson Velez, a gang lord in solitary confinement, slowly losing his mind and Lizbeth Greene, a celebrated crime novelist, whose inspiration is beginning to run dry. When Lizbeth decides that writing a book about Velez could revivify her ailing career, she begins to visit him in prison. Gradually, she becomes drawn into Wilson's dark world and the pair engage in a complex and fascinating dance of attraction and rejection: Lizbeth needs Wilson to kick-start her career; Wilson needs Lizbeth to get out of solitary confinement. Laced through the narrative is a children's book - called 'The Monsters of Gramercy Park' - which mirrors the increasingly intimate and dangerous relationship between Lizbeth and Velez. With material reminiscent of the literary true-crime classics such as Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song. Danny Leigh has created a dark and compelling novel that is also a tender love story.