Everybody Knows

How much would you be willing to stay silent to protect the powerful? And what would happen if one day you decided to break that silence?

Mae Pruett is a problem solver in Los Angeles, just another cog in the perfectly oiled machinery of “the Beast”: that invisible network of lawyers, PR agencies, and private security that protects Hollywood’s rich, famous, and powerful. But when her mentor is murdered on Sunset Boulevard, Mae is forced to confront the corrupt system she herself helped sustain.

Jordan Harper immerses us in a brutal and dazzling Los Angeles, populated by moguls, addicts, corrupt cops, and predators lurking in the darkness. With prose that combines James Ellroy’s raw violence and Raymond Chandler’s poetic sensibility, this Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award-winning novel takes us on a relentless journey through the underworld and the brightest heights of a city that is, basically, a neon jungle.

The most disturbing thing about Everybody Knows isn’t the violence it portrays, but the mirror it holds up to us: that culture of complicity, power, and silence that allows certain crimes never to see the light. It’s more than a crime novel; it’s a ruthless X-ray of our time and a must-read for those seeking stories that shake them from within.