Books by Jordan Harper and Complete Book Reviews

Love and Other Wounds
Love and Other Wounds
Jordan Harper. Ecco, $15.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-239438-5
Each one of the stories in Harper’s slim debut collection goes off like a shotgun blast of crime fiction tropes: convicts, skinheads, meth mouths, dog fights, crooked cops, barflies, and botched robberies. Doomed men and desperate women paint...
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She Rides Shotgun
She Rides Shotgun
Jordan Harper. Ecco, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-239440-8
At the start of Harper’s visceral, pulpy, vernacular-filled first novel, introspective 11-year-old Polly McClusky has an unexpected reunion on the steps of her Southern California middle school with her estranged father, Nate. Nate has recently been
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Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows
Jordan Harper. Mulholland, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-45791-0
Edgar winner Harper (She Rides Shotgun) brilliantly taps into the zeitgeist for this crime novel that perfectly reflects its time and place. As a series of bombings ravage the homeless encampments of Los Angeles, the city’s wealthy elite are...
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The Last King of California
The Last King of California
Jordan Harper. Little, Brown, $18.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-58140-0
Edgar winner Harper (Everybody Knows) combines mythic motifs and hardboiled crime tropes in this powerful California noir. After flunking out of college, 19-year-old Luke Crosswhite returns to his family’s San Bernardino compound. Twelve years...
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