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THE DARK ROOM

Jonathan Moore

Set again in a brilliantly realized neo-noir San Francisco, THE DARK ROOM is Jonathan Moore's dazzling follow-up to his acclaimed literary thriller, The Poison Artist, which Stephen King called “an electrifying read.” Rights have been sold in six international territories.
Gavin Cain, an SFPD homicide inspector, is in the middle of an exhumation when his phone rings. San Francisco's mayor is being blackmailed and has ordered Cain back to the city; a helicopter is on its way. The casket, and Cain's cold-case investigation, must wait.
At City Hall, the mayor shows Cain four photographs he's received: the first, an unforgettable blonde; the second, pills and handcuffs on a nightstand; the third, the woman drinking from a flask; and last, the woman naked, unconscious, and shackled to a bed. The accompanying letter is straightforward: worse revelations are on the way unless the mayor takes his own life first.
An intricately plotted, deeply affecting thriller that keeps readers guessing until the final pages, THE DARK ROOM tracks Cain as he hunts for the blackmailer, pitching him into the web of destruction and devotion the mayor casts in his shadow.

Jonathan Moore is an attorney with the Honolulu firm of Kobayashi, Sugita & Goda. Before completing law school in New Orleans, he was an English teacher, the owner of Taiwan's first Mexican restaurant, a whitewater raft guide on the Rio Grande, a counselor at a Texas wilderness camp for juvenile sex offenders, and an investigator for a criminal defense attorney in Washington D.C.
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Published by Houghton Mifflin

Comments

Ikar

“With this second electrifying noir thriller, readers won't want to wait until 2018, when the third, The Night Market, is scheduled for publication.” -Booklist ? starred review

Koridor Yayinlari

Vulkan Publishing

Citic

“An intricate thriller Moore, a terrific stylist, provides telling procedural details and makes good use of the Bay Area setting.” - Publishers Weekly

Orion (Bill Massey)

Euromedia

Newton Compton

Hidra

“Moore's complex and often deeply disturbing crime noir set in the City by the Bay delves into dark subjects and the insidious nature of true evil... Moody and macabre with an Edgar Allan Poe feel to it, this book leaves an uncomfortable, indelible impression that can't be shaken by simply putting it down. The featureless Cain and his search for the woman in the casket are irresistible. San Francisco has never been so menacing.”