The Dark Room

<strong>If you like Michael Connelly's novels you will gobble up Jonathan Moore's <em>The Dark Room</em><em>.</em> <br> --James Patterson</strong> <p/> Channels the moody intensity of Raymond Chandler's crime fiction.--<em>Washington Post</em> <p/> 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. <br> 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. <br> An electrifying noir thriller* <em>The Dark Room</em> tracks Cain as he hunts for the blackmailer pitching him into the web of destruction and devotion the mayor casts in his shadow. <p/> With an Edgar Allan Poe feel to it this book leaves an uncomfortable indelible impression . . . San Francisco has never been so menacing.--<em>Kirkus </em>starred review <p/> *<em>Booklist </em> starred review