Charley Partanna is a faithful lieutenant for New York’s most powerful Mafia family, the Prizzis. After he bumps off a traitor who fleeced the organization, he learns that his new girlfriend Irene Walker was the dead man’s wife. If that were not problematic enough, the tax consultant also moonlights as a hit woman for the Mob. When Charley learns she has cheated the Prizzis out of an unforgivably large amount of money, his oldest loyalties are put to the test against his newest one. Which wins?

Well-known for its film adaptation starring Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner, Prizzi’s Honor is the improbable love story of two killers by Richard Condon full of devious plot construction and satirical humor. This is the first of four crime novels featuring the Prizzi family - all of which feature Charley Partanna as the protagonist.