Everybody Knows
A Best Mystery Fiction Book of 2023, Baltimore Sun
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.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 & sought-after crisis PR firms, at the center of a sprawling web of lawyers, PR flaks, & private security firms she calls “The Beast.” They protect the rich & powerful & 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 & 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 & fillers; sprawling mansions footsteps away from sprawling homeless encampments; crooked cops & mysterious wrecking crews in the middle of the night.
Edgar Award-winner Jordan Harper’s EVERYBODY KNOWS is addicting & alarming, a “juggernaut of a novel” & “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, & 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