In this thrilling mystery from an Edgar Award winning author, a fearless black-bag publicist exposes the belly of the L.A. beast.   “ The best mystery novel I've read in years.” —James Patterson, #1 bestselling author   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.     Jordan Harper’s Everybody Knows  is addicting and alarming tour de force of a novel. 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, New York Times bestselling author   “An absolute tour de force.” —S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author   A New York Times Best Crime Book of the Year • A NYTBR Editors' Choice Selection • An Anthony Award Nominee • A Barry Award Nominee • 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!  “ 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 “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, Edgar Award-winning and bestselling author of HEAVEN, MY HOME and BLUEBIRD, BLUEBIRD "This tale of a crisis manager's journey of the soul is as bleak as Hollywood noir gets, skewering redemption narratives, romance and idealism. Every sentence sings with heartache."― New York Times Book Review, Best Crime Novels of 2023 "Hollywood noir doesn't get any darker than Jordan Harper's dazzling Everybody Knows , where cynicism is rewarded, romance thwarted and redemption narratives undercut at every turn."― Sarah Weinman, New York Times Book Review “Harper, a Hollywood writer for more than a decade, perceptively illustrates the contrasts in the entertainment business— “perfect” influencers who hide their drug addictions, giant mansions alongside homeless encampments — and exposes the way people hide desperation under a veneer of fame.”  ― Washington Post “ 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 “Jordan Harper’s ‘Everybody Knows’ is a pure hit of neo-noir. It is dark, violent, bold — and romantic as all get out.”― Harlan Coben on the TODAY Show "It’s more than a crime novel. It’s a fresh take and a hard look at our culture."― Michael Connelly, Wall Street Journal "A bona-fide page-turner, pings with one-liners and scenes worthy of Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West."― Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal "[A] stunning new crime saga… The novel’s scope is expansive, and so is the buzz that comes trailing it…a wholly contemporary story. The dark epic that unfurls in the pages of Everybody Knows makes ‘ripped-from-the-headlines’ crime shows seem quaint by comparison…. poised to be Harper’s breakout novel…"  ― LA Times “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 "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, bestselling author of THE TURNOUT "Just as Ellory mastered the atavistic heart of 1950's corruption,