Everybody Knows

In this "hardboiled mystery" (Maureen Corrigan) from an Edgar Award winning author, a fearless black-bag publicist exposes the belly of the L.A. beast.

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 -

A NYTBR Editors' Choice Selection

"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

Author: Jordan Harper
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Published: 01/10/2023
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.14w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9780316457910

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2022 pg. 3
Publishers Weekly 01/02/2023
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2023
Booklist 01/01/2023 pg. 30
Library Journal 02/24/2023 pg. 1

About the Author
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 writer and producer for television.