Everybody Knows: A Novel

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 ABA January 2023 Indie Next List Pick Recommended by New York Times Book Review NPR/Fresh Air Wall Street Journal Washington Post LA Times CrimeReads The Boston Globe South Florida Sun Sentinel Alta Online Lit Hub Kirkus Reviews Publishers Weekly NBC/TODAY and many more! Welcome to Mae Pruetts 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 LAs 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 Beasts 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 Harpers 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