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Crime & mystery fiction

HOLD ME DOWN

Clea Simon

A standalone novel of suspense from a strong, if damaged, female perspective and set in the basement clubs and dark back rooms behind the stage lights of rock and roll stardom.

Told from from a strong, if damaged female perspective, HOLD ME DOWN is a riveting standalone suspense novel of love, music, and murder set in the basement clubs and dark back rooms behind the stage lights of rock 'n roll stardom. Gal was a rock star for a hot minute long ago; she's back in Boston to play a memorial for her late drummer/best friend but freezes on stage at the sight of a face in the crowd. The next day, the man she saw has been killed and her friend's husband is charged but refuses to defend himself. Gal's investigation forces her to reexamine her own wild life, her perception of the past, and an industry that monetizes dysfunction. Clea Simon is the author of three nonfiction books and seven mysteries, including the Witch Cats of Cambridge mysteries from Polis Books: A Spell of Murder, An Incantation of Cats, and A Cat on the Case (licensed for audio to Dreamscape).

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Book Published 2021-10-19 by Polis

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Lyrical, layered, and full of surprises. Simon has penned a raw and emotional thriller with a heartbeat, about lost dreams and missing friends, regrets and buried memories, the final note reminding us that it's never too late to start again. Provocative, moving, and suspenseful.

A mystery that expires character motivations... for fans of Alexander McCall Smith and Janet Evanovich.

Gripping and intense, a darkly suspenseful dive into friendship, fame, murder, and the thrilling power of rock music.

Simon draws on her career as a journalist, in particular her reporting on Boston's music scene in the 1990s, for the setting, concert scenes, and flashbacks, bringing a gritty reality to this dark suspense tale.

In electric prose, Simon conjures the rock-and-roll world, its drink, drugs, and band-dynamics, and the twin seductresses of excess and success, and a penetrating portrait of friendship.