Crime is the family business for the Mercurios in Lou Berney’s new novel, Crooks. The book starts with an origin story—how Buddy and Lillian found each other, fell in love, got married, and, ultimately, tried to double cross one another—and then follows each of their five children one at time. The episodic narrative follows the… The post A Family Affair: “Crooks” by Lou Berney first appeared on Iowa Source.
