A Violent Masterpiece is a crime novel unlike anything you’ve ever read before. Dark, wicked, sinful, and tragic, yet also bitterly hopeful and infused with the defiant fighting spirit of the underdog. A journey to hell and back that leaves you feeling a mixture of dirty and clean, beat down and triumphant, melancholy and tranquil. The emotional result of reading a noir masterpiece from the vivid mind of Jordan Harper.
Los Angeles is a city on the edge. A Hollywood celebrity is arrested on pedophilia charges. Multiple young women are savagely murdered by the hand of a serial killer known as the LA Ripper. Law enforcement is clearing out the homeless on the street. And the elite and famous are seemingly above the law. Through the haze of violence, drugs and depravity, three people – a live-streaming nightcrawler, a bus stop bench lawyer and an underground private concierge hostess – find each other and put their lives on the line to expose a conspiracy featuring the most rich and powerful men in the city. Taking them on an epic journey from the glitz and glamour of Hollywood to the dark underbelly of a city filled with incredible secrets and massive coverups.
Do yourself a favor and make sure you read this book, but don’t dive into the details of the plot before you open it. Because it’s best to experience A Violent Masterpiece knowing as little as possible. Experiencing it as if being on a voyeuristic ride-along where anything and everything might happen as you prowl the streets and dark rooms of a city on the brink. Allowing for raw, unfiltered, visceral reactions to the volatile events contained in this story. Living the book rather than reading it. Letting it get under your skin and burrow into your brain. Reeling and reveling in a primal world that you hope doesn’t really exist, but you suspect does to some degree.
Another tape-measure home run of a novel by Jordan Harper. Cementing him as one of the best to ever write LA crime noir.
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