Everybody Knows : A Novel Of Suspense

Description: In this dazzling (New York Times Book Review) mystery from an Edgar Award winning author a fearless black - bag publicist exposes the belly of the L. A. beast. A New York Times Best Crime Book of the Year A Nytbr Editors Choice Selection An Anthony Award Nominee A Barry Award Nominee An AB a January 2023 Indie Next List Pick Recommended by New York Times Book Review NPR/ Fresh Air Wall Street Journal Washington Post L a Times Crime Reads The Boston Globe South Florida Sun Sentinel Alta Online Lit Hub Kirkus Reviews Publishers Weekly NBC/ Today and many more! Welcome to Mae Pruett's Los Angeles where Nobody talks. But everybody whispers. As a black - bag publicist tasked not with letting the good news out but keeping the bad news in Mae works for one of L a's most powerful and sought - after crisis PR firms at the center of a sprawling web of lawyers PR flaks and private security firms she calls The Beast. They protect the rich and powerful and depraved by any means necessary. After her boss is gunned down in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel in a random attack Mae takes it upon herself to investigate and runs headfirst into The Beast's lawless machinations and the twisted systems it exists to perpetuate. It takes her on a roving neon joyride through a Los Angeles full of influencers pumped full of pills and fillers; sprawling mansions footsteps away from sprawling homeless encampments; crooked cops and mysterious wrecking crews in the middle of the night. Edgar Award - winner Jordan Harper's Everybody Knows is addicting and alarming a juggernaut of a novel and an absolute tour de force. It is what the crime novel can achieve in the modern age: portray the human lives at the center of vast American landscapes and make us thrill at their attempts to face impossible odds. " The book everybody's been waiting for" Michael Connelly " An absolute tour de force" S. A. Cosby " The best mystery novel I've read in years" James Patterson
Title: Everybody Knows : A Novel Of Suspense
Barcode: 9780316457910
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/10/2023