Everybody Knows: A Novel of Suspense

A fearless black-bag publicist exposes the belly of the L.A. beast in one of the best LA noir novels I've ever read (Attica Locke) from Edgar Award-winning author Jordan Harper. n A NYTBR Editors' Choice Selection nIngenious... I'd like to think Chandler himself might get a kick out of Everybody Knows. . . the LA hardboiled mystery form he largely created continues to chronicle a world even more fatally obsessed with images and false gods than he could ever have envisioned.―Maureen Corrigan, NPR/Fresh Air n 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 LA'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. n 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. n n 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. n Recommended by New York Times Book Review - NPR/Fresh Air - Wall Street Journal - Washington Post - LA Times -CrimeReads- Alta Online - Lit Hub- Kirkus Reviews- Publishers Weekly- NBC/TODAY and many more! - An ABA January 2023 Indie Next List Pick - nThe book everybody's been waiting for --Michael Connelly n An absolute tour de force--S. A. Cosby n The best mystery novel I've read in years --James Pattersonn