Lola: Winner of the John Creasey New Blood Dagger for Best Debut Crime Novel of 2018 - Brossura

A debut as fast, flexible and poised as a chef s knife.  At its best it has the lithe energy of a Lee Child novel, combined with Dennis Lehane s or to step outside of the genre, Stuart Dybeck s sense of the exhausting intimacy of poor neighborhoods...an unshakably engrossing read... Love is vibrant and clear-eyed, an exciting new west coast observer.

'A tough, enterprising and vulnerable heroine, Lola gives the reader an unvarnished insight into ghetto life.'

'A brilliant debut, a bleak and cynical noir set in the patriarchal gangland world of LA's South Central, with smack-dealer Lola pulling her gang's strings as she does whatever it takes to survive.'

'A gritty, tightly plotted masterpiece that doubles as a whirlwind tour of some of the many different sections and tribes of L.A.'

'An unbelievably smart mystery.'

A fine, brutal debut thriller.

'Stunning... This powerful read is at once an intelligently crafted mystery, a reflection on the cycles of violence and addiction, and a timely mediation on the double standard facing women in authority.'

'Intense, gritty, and breathlessly paced, Lola is a thriller that s been elevated by exquisite writing and deep character development.'

'A glorious invention, the Latina daughter of Lisbeth Salander and Walter White, on a lifelong tear of revenge after being pimped by her mother for drugs and then living with the double invisibility of her gender and her race.'

'I fell hard for Lola in all her fierce and broken beauty, her reckless and necessary hardness, her bottomless capacity for loyalty. Don t miss this ride.'

Melissa Scrivner Love was born to a police officer father and a court stenographer mother. After earning a master's degree in English Literature from New York University, Melissa moved to Los Angeles, where she has lived for over a decade. She is an Edgar Award-nominated screenwriter who has written for television shows, among them Life, CSI: Miami and Person of Interest. She and her husband welcomed their daughter in 2014. Lola is her first novel.