Jordan Harper is the Edgar-Award winning author of She Rides Shotgun and Love and Other Wounds. Born and educated in Missouri, he now lives in Los Angeles, where he works as a writer and producer for television.
His new novel is Everybody Knows.
At CrimeReads Harper tagged "a multi-media list of works to help bring the LA Crime Canon up to date." One of three novels on the list:
The Damned Lovely by Adam FrostRead about the other new crime classics on the list.
The city of Glendale is the setting for perhaps the greatest film noir of all time, Double Indemnity. In Adam Frost’s terrific first novelThe Damned Lovely, Glendale is a place of also-rans and good-enoughs, a place that is, like the titular bar, shabby and comfortable as an old t-shirt, far from the chafing high fashion of the Sunset Strip. Frost paints a portrait of the Los Angeles that most art ignores, lingering not in the gutters or the mansions but in the Los Angeles of strip malls and corner bars. Frost uses sharp prose to tell a tale about the one thing everyone in Los Angeles has: desire. Desire for truth, for justice, for love, or maybe just a place to call home.
--Marshal Zeringue
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