{"product_id":"the-dark-room-9781328745569","title":"The Dark Room","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\"If you like Michael Connelly's novels, you will gobble up Jonathan Moore's \u003cem\u003eThe Dark Room\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\" \u003cbr\u003e --James Patterson\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Channels the moody intensity of Raymond Chandler's crime fiction.\"--\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e An \"electrifying noir thriller,\"* \u003cem\u003eThe Dark Room\u003c\/em\u003e tracks Cain as he hunts for the blackmailer, pitching him into the web of destruction and devotion the mayor casts in his shadow. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"With an Edgar Allan Poe feel to it, this book leaves an uncomfortable, indelible impression . . . San Francisco has never been so menacing.\"--\u003cem\u003eKirkus, \u003c\/em\u003estarred review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e *\u003cem\u003eBooklist, \u003c\/em\u003e starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJONATHAN MOORE is the author of five books. Before completing law school in New Orleans, he was a teacher, a bar owner, a counselor at a wilderness camp for juvenile delinquents, and an investigator for a criminal defense attorney in Washington, DC.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492409905426,"sku":"9781328745569","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_374445c3-ed1a-49fc-95c5-194d725f37c4.jpg?v=1730589228","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-dark-room-9781328745569","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}