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Jordan Harper is the Edgar Award-winning author of She Rides Shotgun and Love and Other Wounds. Born and educated in Missouri, he now lives in Los Angeles, where he works as a television writer and producer.
Welcome to Mae Pruett's Los Angeles, where "Nobody talks. But everyone whispers./" As a "black bag/" publicist charged not with leaking the good news but keeping the bad news, Mae works to one of the Los Angeles of Los Angeles. The most powerful and sought-after crisis PR firms, at the center of a sprawling network of lawyers, PR executives and private security firms she calls /"The Beast/". They protect the rich, the powerful and the depraved by any means necessary.
After her boss is gunned down outside the Beverly Hills Hotel in a random attack, Mae decides to investigate and dives headfirst into the lawless machinations of the Beast and the twisted systems he seeks to perpetuate. This takes him on a roving neon joyride through a Los Angeles filled with influencers loaded with pills and fillers; sprawling mansions just steps from sprawling homeless encampments; crooked cops and mysterious demolition crews in the middle of the night.
EVERYBODY KNOWS, by Edgar Award winner Jordan Harper, is addictive and alarming, a “juggernaut of a novel” and “an absolute tour de force.” This is what detective fiction can achieve in the modern era: depict human lives. at the center of vast American landscapes and thrill us with their attempts to confront impossible obstacles.
Review Quotes:
/"Just as Ellory mastered the atavistic heart of 1950s corruption, Jordan Harper has mastered the articulation of the Day-Glo Technicolor nightmare that is postmodern Los Angeles. Everybody Knows is full of influential people, of course, but also of plastic social media influencers, high-rent neighborhoods, nihilistic cops and the kind of lost souls you'll never forget is an absolute tour de force, a journey through an exclusive and seductive hell where everyone gets what he wants and exactly what he deserves./" — SA Cosby, bestselling author and LA Times Book Prize winner of RAZORBLADE TEARS and BLACKTOP WASTELAND
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