Everybody Knows

**WINNER OF THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER**

A Times, Guardian and Crimereads Book of the Year

'Cinematic and insightful. Everybody Knows is a tour de force.' GUARDIAN
'A heart-racing journey of danger and redemption.' DAILY MAIL
'I doubt there will be a better American crime novel this year.' DAILYTELEGRAPH
'Dark and thrilling.' GRAZIA
In Hollywood, nobody talks. But everybody whispers.

Welcome to Mae Pruett's LA. A 'black-bag' publicist at one of Hollywood's most powerful crisis PR firms, Mae's job isn't to get good news out, it's to keep the bad news in and contain the scandals. But just as she starts to question her job and life choices, her boss is gunned down in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel, and everything changes.

Investigating with the help of an ex-boyfriend, Mae dives headlong into a neon joyride through the jungle of contemporary Hollywood. Pitted against the twisted system she's worked so hard to perpetuate, she's desperately fighting for redemption, and her life.
Readers are gripped by Everybody Knows:
***** 'The year's best detective novel. . . a fresh take with a compelling heroine worth rooting for.'

***** 'Powerful and brutal. I couldn't put it down.'

***** 'A wonderful yet wretched exploration of human nature, you will struggle to put this book down or ever forget it'

***** 'Addictive. . .an atmospheric neo-noir with crackling dialogue and finely drawn characters.'

***** 'A superb story with a genuine sense of moral outrage.'

Genre: Mystery

"Searing, timely, sprawling, EVERYBODY KNOWS pulls back Hollywood's velvet curtain, exposing the sordid machinations on which the industry runs and the seamy complicity which keeps it humming. This is L.A. noir at its most incendiary." - Megan Abbott

"With Everybody Knows, Jordan Harper takes on the Beast--the monstrous, corrupt, insatiable mass of organs that eats the losers and feeds the winners in capitalist America, with Hollywood as its base of operations. Our guides to this world (our world) are two of its own dirty players, a celebrity publicist with killer instincts and an ex-cop goon for hire, looking for survival and money and maybe, if it's in the cards, a little bit of redemption. It's a juggernaut of a novel, fast and high-impact, with a sense of doomed humor and bright, sharp teeth." - Steph Cha

"EVERYBODY KNOWS rages through the City of Angels like a broken-dam flood. It's got it all, but most of all it's got deep insight. It's the book everybody's been waiting for." - Michael Connelly

"Just as Ellory mastered the atavistic heart of 1950's corruption, so Jordan Harper has mastered articulating the Day-Glo Technicolor nightmare that is postmodern Los Angeles. Everybody Knows is filled with ballsy movers and shakers, of course, but also plastic social media influencers, high-rent hoods, nihilistic cops, and the sorts of lost souls you'll never forget. Everybody Knows is an absolute tour de force, a trip through an exclusive alluring Hell where everyone gets what they want and just what they deserve." - S A Cosby

"Jordan Harper writes like he's L.A.'s avenging angel. EVERYBODY KNOWS is timely. It's timeless. It's a knockout punch." - James Kestrel

"What a ride! If it were possible for James Ellroy and James M. Cain to produce a bastard love child, it would be EVERYBODY KNOWS by Jordan Harper. Awash in substance abuse, sex and demented violence, this is the LA of a good drug trip turned very bad." - Dennis Lehane

"A bold new reinvention of Los Angeles noir with the Hollywood publicist as sleuth, trawling through social media feeds and manufactured cover stories to discover the hushed-up truth -- where human kindness still flickers alive in a jet-black vision of Tinseltown. Sharply observed, atmospheric, and indelible." - Winnie M Li

"Good lord, this book is fantastic. EVERYBODY KNOWS is one of the best LA noir novels I've ever read. The writing is astonishingly good. It's a wild, honest, sharp, and suspenseful ride, full of wry observations about the nature of power and the cost of being good in a bad, bad world." - Attica Locke

"Everybody Knows is the best mystery novel I've read in years...Jordan Harper writes sentences, and in this case an entire book, that is both terrifying and exhilarating." - James Patterson