The award-winning author, who’s written for TV’s ‘The Mentalist’ and ‘Gotham,’ shares the book’s real-life origins.
It’s a classic Hollywood tale.
“I had all of this energy to tell a big, epic L.A. crime story that I had built up to do five seasons of ‘LA Confidential.’ And when that wasn’t going to happen, I decided to harness that energy, but to do something very different, which was to set it in right now,” says Harper, who aimed to explore the conventions of classic noir novels, he says, and “drag them into the 21st century.”Jordan Harper is an LA crime novelist based in Eagle Rock at the Los Angeles River on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022.
“I like to say he’s one of the best crime novelists working today – but he’s really one of the best novelists working today,” says Cosby, author of “Blacktop Wasteland” and “Razorblade Tears” and a friend who will be appearing with Harper at“Everybody Knows” centers on Mae Pruett, a so-called “black-bag publicist” whose job isn’t to promote the news — it’s to smother and bury the bad stuff before it ever gets out.
“‘Everybody Knows,’ a bulk of it was written during the pandemic and I essentially emptied the totality of my Los Angeles into it,” says Harper, who likes to use real locations for his fiction. “After I’ve written rough drafts, I like to get in my car with my laptop and go to the place where a scene is set. And I do my polishes, if at all possible, at the place where I wrote the scene.
“I did that for a while and moved out here to L.A. and got my job on ‘The Mentalist.’ I was in the Warner Brothers Writers’ Workshop, which is a training program for writers,” says Harper, who published a book of stories called “Love and Other Wounds.”
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