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The next thrilling novel from the bestselling author of The Dispatcher.

*Soon to be a six-part Apple TV+ series, Last Seen, starring Patrick Brammell of Colin from Accounts*‘A one-sitting, fist-in-mouth read’ – The GuardianThe phone rings. It’s your daughter. She’s been dead for four months.Ian Hunt is the police dispatcher for the small town of Bulls Mouth, East Texas. Just as his shift is ending, he gets a call from his fourteen-year-old daughter, Maggie.Maggie, who has just been declared dead, having been snatched from her bedroom seven years ago. Her call ends in a scream.The trail leads to a local couple, but this is just the start of his battle to get his daughter back. What follows is a bullet-strewn cross-country chase along Interstate 10, from Texas to California.The Dispatcher is a darkly propulsive, action-fueled crime thriller from Ryan David Jahn – the acclaimed author of Acts of Violence and Low Life – about the lengths a man will go to for his daughter. Perfect for fans of Lee Child and Taken.Praise for The Dispatcher‘Talk about page-turning’ – Daily Mirror ‘The author leads the new noir pack’ – Financial Times‘If you only read one book tomorrow, make it this one’ – GQ‘A breathless, bloody chase all the way to California’ – The Sunday Telegraph

‘This is the first book I’ve read in two years that has caused me to sit up until the early hours to finish it, and the denouement was as satisfying as those in Earthly Powers, Presumed Innocent, The New City, The Bonfire Of The Vanities, The Deptford Trilogy or any of the other novels that have induced me to start drinking coffee after midnight’Dylan Jones GQ on The DispatcherA chilling thriller repackaged in the new brand lookPromotional campaign in place for a Ryan David Jahn moment in summer 2012

Los Angeles, 1952After thirteen-year-old Sandy Duncan shoots his stepfather and carves a symbol from a comic book into the corpse’s forehead, district attorney Seymour Markley launches a grand jury investigation into the murder, one that could implicate east-coast crime boss James Manning.Also in the frame is the comic book’s creator, Eugene Dahl. When threatening notes appear nailed to his front door, he is lured to a downtown hotel where one of the men who could bring down James Manning, is being held.There, Eugene finds the witness murdered, as well as the police officer charged with protecting him, and all fingers point to Eugene.Forced to go on the run, Eugene devises a plan that involves deeds far worse than anything he’s been accused of . . .'There is no doubt of Jahn's writing talent . . . existential and surreal' The Times

Katrina Marino is about to become America’s most infamous murder victim.This is Katrina’s story, and the story of her killer.It is also the story of Katrina’s neighbours, those who witnessed her murder and did nothing: the terrified Vietnam draftee; the woman who thinks she’s killed a child, and her husband who will risk everything for the truth; the former soldier planning suicide and the man who saves him. And others whose lives are touched by the crime: the elderly teacher whose past is catching up with him; the amateur blackmailer who’s about to find out just what sort of people he’s been threatening; the corrupt cop who believes he is God’s ‘red right hand’.Shocking and compassionate, angry and gripping, ACTS OF VIOLENCE is a sprawling, cinematic tour-de-force, a terrifying crime novel unlike any other.

*Soon to be a six-part Apple TV+ series, Last Seen, starring Patrick Brammell of Colin from Accounts*‘A one-sitting, fist-in-mouth read’ – The GuardianThe phone rings. It’s your daughter. She’s been dead for four months.Ian Hunt is the police dispatcher for the small town of Bulls Mouth, East Texas. Just as his shift is ending, he gets a call from his fourteen-year-old daughter, Maggie.Maggie, who has just been declared dead, having been snatched from her bedroom seven years ago. Her call ends in a scream.The trail leads to a local couple, but this is just the start of his battle to get his daughter back. What follows is a bullet-strewn cross-country chase along Interstate 10, from Texas to California.The Dispatcher is a darkly propulsive, action-fueled crime thriller from Ryan David Jahn – the acclaimed author of Acts of Violence and Low Life – about the lengths a man will go to for his daughter. Perfect for fans of Lee Child and Taken.Praise for The Dispatcher‘Talk about page-turning’ – Daily Mirror ‘The author leads the new noir pack’ – Financial Times‘If you only read one book tomorrow, make it this one’ – GQ‘A breathless, bloody chase all the way to California’ – The Sunday Telegraph

It wasn't every day you had the chance to track down the man who'd killed your mother. In 1964, Andrew Combs' mother is killed in front of him. His father Harry vanishes soon afterwards. Twenty-six years later Andrew wants revenge. There's only one way he can let go of his past and become the man he wants to be: track down and kill his mother's murderer. His father.But while Andrew thinks he knows what happened all those years ago, the truth is far darker. For Harry Combs turns out to be a man of many secrets.As shadowy figures from Harry's past threaten his life, and Andrew inches closer to killing him, the two men find themselves playing a very dangerous game of life and death. And only one of them can survive. A brilliant thriller with the pace and tension of Mark Billingham and the laconic style of Ramond Chandler.

Private Investigator Damien Lamb: a man hardened by life and seeking justice against those who have wronged society. When the vulnerable Abigail walks into his office asking Lamb to retrieve her daughter from the confines of infamous cult, the Children of God, Lamb can't help but fall for her story. And so begins a breath-taking and dangerous journey as Lamb attempts to rescue Abigail's daughter, Lily, and bring down the charming yet heinous leader of the cult, Rhett Mosley. But Abigail's motivations might not be as clear as they first seem and Lamb finds himself in more danger than he could ever have imagined . . .

Ian Hunt is the police dispatcher for the small town of Bulls Mouth, East Texas. Just as his shift is ending he gets a call from his fourteen-year-old daughter, Maggie.Maggie, who has just been declared dead, having been snatched from her bedroom seven years ago. Her call ends in a scream.The trail leads to a local couple, but this is just the start of his battle to get his daughter back. What follows is a bullet-strewn cross-country chase along Interstate 10, from Texas to California.The riveting new novel from the acclaimed author of Acts of Violence and Low Life is a brilliantly original, blood drenched thriller, about the lengths a man will go to for his daughter.

Los Angeles, 1952After thirteen-year-old Sandy Duncan shoots his stepfather and carves a symbol from a comic book into the corpse’s forehead, district attorney Seymour Markley launches a grand jury investigation into the murder, one that could implicate east-coast crime boss James Manning.Also in the frame is the comic book’s creator, Eugene Dahl. When threatening notes appear nailed to his front door, he is lured to a downtown hotel where one of the men who could bring down James Manning, is being held.There, Eugene finds the witness murdered, as well as the police officer charged with protecting him, and all fingers point to Eugene.Forced to go on the run, Eugene devises a plan that involves deeds far worse than anything he’s been accused of . . .'There is no doubt of Jahn's writing talent . . . existential and surreal' The Times