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.
A NYTBR Editors' Choice Selection
"Ingenious... 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
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.
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.
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 -
"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
