Misfit Blues is a novella of love and crime, Goodbye, Columbus meets The Friends of Eddie Coyle...It's both an ill-fated love story (she's already engaged, he's not quite in her class) and a suspenseful mystery set on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1989. Housepainter Tommy Shakespear, a Golden Gloves boxer and Dartmouth B-school dropout, has to locate and persuade a terrified witness to return to Boston from the Vineyard, where she's been in hiding...