The Dark Room - Jonathan Moore

nIf you like Michael Connelly's novels, you will gobble up Jonathan Moore's The Dark Room. n --James Patterson n Channels the moody intensity of Raymond Chandler's crime fiction.--Washington Post n n 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. n 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.

n 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. n n 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 n n *Booklist, starred reviewn