The Dark Room by Jonathan Moore
"If you like Michael Connelly's novels, you will gobble up Jonathan Moore's The Dark Room."--James Patterson
"Channels the moody intensity of Raymond Chandler's crime fiction."--Washington Post
Gavin Cain, an SFPD homicide inspector, is at an exhumation when his phone rings. The 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 will come unless the mayor takes his own life first.
An "electrifying noir thriller,"* 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.
"With an Edgar Allan Poe feel to it, this book leaves an uncomfortable, indelible impression . . . San Francisco has never been so menacing."--Kirkus, starred review
*Booklist, starred review
An award winning playwright, Jonathan Moore has written eleven stage plays since his play Treatment was first performed at The Edinburgh Festival. Subsequent performances have taken place at the Gate theatre, the Donmar, London, and a BBC Film version starring Moore and Gabriel Byrne. This powerful and angrily poetic play was acclaimed as one of the most disturbing and exhilarating plays in London (Mark Lawson, The Independent). He has recently finished the second draft of a new play commission. He has written as well for TV, film and the BBC, and several texts for contemporary opera for major British and International Opera Houses. At the beginning of his career, Jonathan was the recipient of an Arts Council Bursary as Writer In Residence at The Albany Empire, the community theatre in Deptford, South East London. He worked with local writers in developing new scripts. Moore's plays have been performed at the Donmar, Gate Theatre, the Almeida (opera text), Royal Exchange, and the Edinburgh Festival. He is the recipient of numerous commissions, including a National Theatre commission. He wrote several episodes of Crown Court for Granada TV, Treatment, a BBC Film, and the libretto for Horse Opera a Western filmed opera shot in Tucson, Arizona for Channel 4 with music by Stewart Copeland.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781328745569 |
| ISBN 10 | 1328745562 |
| Title | The Dark Room |
| Author | Jonathan Moore |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harper Paperbacks |
| Year published | 2017-12-05 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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