
Everybody Knows
A Novel
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Megan Tusing
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William DeMeritt
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Jordan Harper
About this listen
In this “hardboiled mystery” (Maureen Corrigan) from an Edgar Award winning author, a fearless black-bag publicist exposes the belly of the L.A. beast.
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.
Edgar Award-winner Jordan Harper’s Everybody Knows is addicting and alarming, a “juggernaut of a novel” and “an absolute tour de force.” 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.
Recommended by New York Times Book Review • NPR/Fresh Air • Wall Street Journal • Washington Post • LA Times • CrimeReads • Alta Online • Lit Hub• Kirkus Reviews • Publishers Weekly • NBC/TODAY and many more!
• An ABA January 2023 Indie Next List Pick
• A NYTBR Editors' Choice Selection
"The book everybody's been waiting for"—Michael Connelly
"An absolute tour de force"—S. A. Cosby
"The best mystery novel I've read in years"—James Patterson
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Critic reviews
“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
“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
“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
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In an alternate 2009, the United States has been a second-rate power for a quarter of a century, ever since Argentina’s victory in the Falkland’s War thanks to their development of “psychopigments.” Created as weapons, these colorful chemicals can produce almost any human emotion upon contact, and they have been embraced in the US as both pharmaceutical cure-alls and popular recreational drugs. Black market traders illegally sell everything from Blackberry Purple (which causes terror) to Sunshine Yellow (which delivers happiness).
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I didn’t want it to end
- By JoJo Bear on 04-25-24
By: Paz Pardo
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The Late Americans
- A Novel
- By: Brandon Taylor
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. Among them are Seamus, a frustrated young poet; Ivan, a dancer turned aspiring banker who dabbles in amateur pornography; Fatima, whose independence and work ethic complicate her relationships with friends and a trusted mentor; and Noah, who “didn’t seek sex out so much as it came up to him like an anxious dog in need of affection.”
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Characters Lacked Depth, No Plot
- By MLB on 07-06-23
By: Brandon Taylor
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Middletide
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Crouch
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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One peaceful morning, in the small, Puget Sound town of Point Orchards, the lifeless body of Dr. Erin Landry is found hanging from a tree on the property of prodigal son and failed writer, Elijah Leith. Sheriff Jim Godbout’s initial investigation points to an obvious suicide, but upon closer inspection, there seem to be clues of foul play when he discovers that the circumstances of the beautiful doctor’s death were ripped straight from the pages of Elijah Leith’s own novel.
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Needed more development
- By Amazon Customer on 06-24-24
By: Sarah Crouch
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Blue Ruin
- A Novel
- By: Hari Kunzru
- Narrated by: Hari Kunzru
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Once, Jay was an artist. Shortly after graduating from his London art school, he was tipped for greatness, a promising career already taking shape before him. Now, undocumented in the United States, he lives out of his car and makes a living as an essential worker, delivering groceries in a wealthy area of upstate New York. The pandemic is still at its height—the greater public panicked in quarantine—and though he has returned to work, Jay hasn’t recovered from the effects of a recent COVID case.
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An excellent dead ringer of the ridiculous depths of the art world
- By JLB on 11-15-24
By: Hari Kunzru
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The Bee Sting
- A Novel
- By: Paul Murray
- Narrated by: Heather O’Sullivan, Barry Fitzgerald, Beau Holland, and others
- Length: 26 hrs and 10 mins
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The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under—but Dickie is spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewelry on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attention of fast-talking cattle farmer Big Mike, while their teenage daughter, Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge drink her way through her final exams. As for twelve-year-old PJ, he’s on the brink of running away.
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Bone Clocks meets Jonathan Franzen
- By Cranson on 10-26-23
By: Paul Murray
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Our Evenings
- A Novel
- By: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrated by: Prasanna Puwanarajah
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
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Dave Win, the son of a Burmese man he’s never met and a British dressmaker, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities emerge, even as Dave is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates.
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Sublime Collaboration
- By Phip Herrick on 11-20-24
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Near the Bone
- By: Christina Henry
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Mattie can't remember a time before she and William lived alone on a mountain together. She must never make him upset. But when Mattie discovers the mutilated body of a fox in the woods, she realizes that they’re not alone after all. There’s something in the woods that wasn’t there before, something that makes strange cries in the night, something with sharp teeth and claws. When three strangers appear on the mountaintop looking for the creature in the woods, Mattie knows their presence will anger William. Terrible things happen when William is angry.
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45 minutes of a woman speaking like a 3-year-old
- By T on 04-24-21
By: Christina Henry
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Our Share of Night
- A Novel
- By: Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell
- Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
- Length: 27 hrs and 17 mins
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A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travel to her ancestral home, where they must confront the terrifying legacy she has bequeathed: a family called the Order that commits unspeakable acts in search of immortality.
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This Story Grew on Me
- By Nikki on 02-17-23
By: Mariana Enriquez, and others
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The Inheritance
- A Novel
- By: Trisha Sakhlecha
- Narrated by: Avita Jay, Ellie Kendrick, Tamaryn Payne
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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Meet the Agarwals, who have gathered on a private, luxury island off the west coast of Scotland for a much-anticipated family reunion. They’ve all got secrets they would die to protect. Who will survive this high-stakes reunion, and who will become a victim of their own greed? One thing is certain: this family gathering will shatter more than just their illusions of unity.
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Family Loyalty
- By Jennifer D Wheaton on 02-24-25
By: Trisha Sakhlecha
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All the Sinners Bleed
- A Novel
- By: S. A. Cosby
- Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
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Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, quiet Charon has had only two murders. But after years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface. Then a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student and the student is fatally shot by Titus’s deputies. As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes.
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Visceral, gripping, thrilling and entertaining
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 06-26-23
By: S. A. Cosby
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Bright Young Women
- A Novel
- By: Jessica Knoll
- Narrated by: Sutton Foster, Imani Jade Powers, Corey Brill, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Masterfully blending elements of psychological suspense and true crime, Jessica Knoll—bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and the writer behind the Netflix adaptation starring Mila Kunis—delivers an “unflinching and evocative” (Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author) thriller in Bright Young Women. The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive, including a sorority president and key witness, Pamela Schumacher, are forever changed.
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Perfectly executed historical fiction
- By Louie Z on 12-03-23
By: Jessica Knoll
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No Exit
- By: Taylor Adams
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Darby Thorne is a college student stranded by a blizzard at a highway rest stop in the middle of nowhere. She’s on the way home to see her sick mother. She’ll have to spend the night in the rest stop with four complete strangers. Then she stumbles across a little girl locked inside one of their parked cars. There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, no way out because of the snow, and she doesn’t know which one of the other travelers is the kidnapper.
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I’m surprised
- By Andrea Hern on 04-21-18
By: Taylor Adams
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The Girl on the Train
- A Novel
- By: Paula Hawkins
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey, India Fisher
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives. Every day the same. Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.
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The Girl on The Train
- By BookReader on 12-30-15
By: Paula Hawkins
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The Overnight Guest
- By: Heather Gudenkauf
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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True crime writer Wylie Lark doesn’t mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she’s retreated to write her new book. A cozy fire, complete silence. It would be perfect, if not for the fact that decades earlier, at this very house, two people were murdered in cold blood and a girl disappeared without a trace.
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Not for me.
- By Mark D on 01-31-22
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The Push
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- By: Ashley Audrain
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter - she doesn't behave like most children do. Or is it all in Blythe's head? Her husband, Fox, says she's imagining things. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well.
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Disturbing, Jaw Dropping, Unforgettable
- By Wendi on 01-16-21
By: Ashley Audrain
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- Christopher Meeks
- 01-23-23
Masterful -- I Had to Keep Listening
It’s not often I read a really great new novel, so I have to tell you about this one, "Everybody Knows," by Jordan Harper. The publisher calls it an L.A. Noir mystery, but it goes beyond that. It’s really our world and how we live it in. It’s about how we get the news that we do, including on social media.
I have a friend who feels that our popular “reliable” mass media such as NPR, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, often reflect what the powers that be want them to reflect. He prefers reading Consortium News and news from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Otherwise, what we hear is what the billionaires want us to hear through various manipulations.
"Everybody Knows" takes in such a theme from the point of view of a public relations agency in Los Angeles. Its many clients include the studios, stars, and politicians. The novel points out that the information that gets to us is often a narrative spun by a publicist, and the publicist protagonist, Mae Pruett, specializes in turning what might be a scandal into a benefit. She uses the notion that "give the public horror or heartstrings." Thus, a popular actress who is about to start a movie but who has come away from a weekend of debauchery with sex and drugs, injuring her face, will likely lose the movie and her career. Instead, Mae gets out that the star's loveable dog, overzealous, nipped her face out of love. Social media loves it.
I mention this because the book gets darker and darker, where we see that the PR agency as well as a Blackwater-like security company, a network, newspapers, and so much more are owned by a billionaire who really controls everything, and people die with impunity.
Mae's boss Dan, who gets killed early on and inspires Mae to find out why, has the saying, "Don't worry about the truth. It's not that the truth isn't important. It just doesn't matter. A lie that isn't believed by anyone can still have power if it gives permission to people to do what they want to do anyway.” A bloody glove that doesn’t fit is all you need. “Give them horror or give them heartstrings. Nothing else sticks."
I found the book as powerful as the 1974 movie The Parallax View with Warren Beatty, yet it doesn't have as bleak an ending. This book has one last great twist.
I listened to the book on Audible, and there are two voice actors, Megan Tusing and William DeMeritt, both amazing. I usually listen only to books in my car, but this one put me on edge so much, I had to keep listening at home on my AirPods. I recommend this especially for book clubs as there’s plenty to discuss in terms of theme and society, yet it’s also gripping with twist after twist.
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- Derek
- 08-09-23
A mindless escape if that’s what you’re looking for.
This is the kind of book that you would pick up at the airport when your flight is delayed and then just throw it in the trash afterwards. Pretty generic/cliché story with a couple attempts at being clever to hide its mediocrity. The author brings up that the primary female character prefers mezcal over tequila multiple times as if this is her interesting character trait.
Some of the modern references and uses of slang come off like your parents asking you if you still have a MySpace account. This book is entertaining enough if you have nothing else to occupy your time or you’re looking for something just interesting enough to keep you awake.
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- hannah619
- 10-27-23
Couldn’t hit the pause button
Wow, this was fantastic! Gripping, thoughtful, and perfectly, tautly paced, this story untangles a narratively brilliant web with characters and imagery that leap off the “pages.” The main characters, including Los Angeles, (perhaps the chief protagonist) are fully realized early on; supporting “cast” members likewise standout, fully fleshed, even in minor roles. Paired with pitch perfect narration, listening to this book felt like watching a movie, and for me it was unputdownable. Eagerly jumping into Harper’s first novel next, and excited for more.
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- Jenica P. Leonard
- 02-15-23
Excellent, Female-Centric LA Noir Book
Entertaining, female-centric LA Noir crime book. Narrator’s voice is pleasing and does the book and suspense justice.
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- Ben
- 03-04-23
Terrific book!
Beautiful vivid writing and a great story. So many vivid settings and lurid details, it felt both ripped from the headlines but also it’s own thing. Darker and murkier yet also hopeful, maybe a little?
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- Steven Lowe
- 11-26-23
Another quality novel from Jordan Harper
I became an instant Jordan Harper fan after discovering 'She rides shotgun', one of my favorite novels of the last decade. 'Everybody Knows' is a welcome follow up and, while much more measured in pace, I found it thouroughly engrossing.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-04-24
characters
the author's description s and plot formation. author's ability to set a mood and sense of time and place were excellent.
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- Fran R
- 01-28-23
The seedy underbelly of LA.
Wow, I have to take a shower. May & Chris are great characters navigating horrible people and fixing things for them. Minus one star for shoddy recording that skipped quite a few places.
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- maria carmona
- 01-31-23
Gripping
Great story, well told. Harper reveals a lot of truth by both shining a light on dark crevices and holding up a mirror. The narrators voices were pretty easy on the ears. My only criticism is of the male narrator’s voicing of the teenage girl. The accent was off. There also seemed to be a few technical issues with words getting shapely cut off. Happened on average about once a chapter.
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- Michael Dean
- 08-29-23
Fast-paced and addictive
Fast-paced and addictive. Jordan Harper knows how to write a crackling good tale. Sharp dialogue and fine characterization.
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