Everybody Knows (eBook)

JORDAN HARPER (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023 | 1. Auflage
320 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-38248-4 (ISBN)

Infos

**WINNER OF THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER** A Times, Guardian and Crimereads Book of the Year 'Cinematic and insightful. Everybody Knows is a tour de force.' GUARDIAN 'A heart-racing journey of danger and redemption.' DAILY MAIL 'I doubt there will be a better American crime novel this year.' DAILYTELEGRAPH 'Dark and thrilling.' GRAZIA In Hollywood, nobody talks. But everybody whispers. Welcome to Mae Pruett's LA. A 'black-bag' publicist at one of Hollywood's most powerful crisis PR firms, Mae's job isn't to get good news out, it's to keep the bad news in and contain the scandals. But just as she starts to question her job and life choices, her boss is gunned down in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel, and everything changes. Investigating with the help of an ex-boyfriend, Mae dives headlong into a neon joyride through the jungle of contemporary Hollywood. Pitted against the twisted system she's worked so hard to perpetuate, she's desperately fighting for redemption, and her life. Readers are gripped by Everybody Knows: ***** 'The year's best detective novel. . . a fresh take with a compelling heroine worth rooting for.' ***** 'Powerful and brutal. I couldn't put it down.' ***** 'A wonderful yet wretched exploration of human nature, you will struggle to put this book down or ever forget it' ***** 'Addictive. . .an atmospheric neo-noir with crackling dialogue and finely drawn characters.' ***** 'A superb story with a genuine sense of moral outrage.'

Jordan Harper has spent over a decade in Hollywood, as a writer for shows such as FOX's Gotham and CBS's The Mentalist. He is the Edgar-Award winning author of She Rides Shotgun (published in the UK as A Lesson in Violence) and Love and Other Wounds.

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Dazzling.

A bonafide page-turner [which] pings with one-liners and scenes worthy of Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West.

Fans of neo-noir will find a lot to like here, as Harper displays an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture and Hollywood history as he spins a tale that isn't just ripped from the headlines-it's probably predicting them.

Good lord, this book is fantastic. . . astonishingly good. It's a wild, honest, sharp, and suspenseful ride, full of wry observations about the nature of power and the cost of being good in a bad, bad world.

'What a ride! If it were possible for James Ellroy and James M. Cain to produce a bastard love child, it would be EVERYBODY KNOWS by Jordan Harper. Awash in substance abuse, sex and demented violence, this is the LA of a good drug trip turned very bad.'

A stunning new crime saga ... its scope is expansive, and so is the buzz that comes trailing it.

'A bold new reinvention of Los Angeles noir with the Hollywood publicist as sleuth, trawling through social media feeds and manufactured cover stories to discover the hushed-up truth -- where human kindness still flickers alive in a jet-black vision of Tinseltown. Sharply observed, atmospheric, and indelible.'

'The best mystery novel I've read in years. . . terrifying and exhilarating."

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.7.2023
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• Schlagworte: attica locke • James Patterson • Megan Abbott • Michael Connolly • S. A. Cosby • Sarah Vaughan • Steph Cha
• ISBN-10: 0-571-38248-7 / 0571382487
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-38248-4 / 9780571382484