Jordan Harper is t he author of Everybody Knows\, the Edgar-Award winning She Ri des Shotgun\, and Love and Other Wounds. Born and educated i n Missouri\, he now lives in Los Angeles\, where he works as a writer and producer for television. \;
\nA Violent Masterpiece tel ls the story of Los Angeles power brokers and those at the edge&mdash\;and a single shattering incident that threatens to bring it all crashing down .Los Angeles\, right now. America with its back up against the wall. This Frankenstein&rsquo\;s monster of crimes and lurid dreams sewn together int o something like a city. A city ready to explode: A Hollywood pedophile is arrested and is ready to tear down the city to get his freedom. A young w oman goes missing&mdash\;and men in black rubber gloves who look like cops clean out her apartment in the middle of the night. And the serial killer known as the LA Ripper is on the loose\, leaving tragic/graphic/brutal cr ime scenes in his wake. Three people trying to keep their heads above the dirty water will find themselves coming together to unite these strands in to one enormous\, unspeakable crime
\nS. A. Cos by is a New York Times bestselling writer from southeastern Virgi nia. He is the author of All the Sinners Bleed\, which was on mor e than forty Best of the Year lists\, including Barack Obama&rsquo\;s\, as well as Edgar Award finalist Razorblade Tears and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Blacktop Wasteland. He has also won the Anthony Awar d\, ITW Thriller Award\, Barry Award\, Macavity Award\, BCALA Award\, and Audie Award and has been longlisted for the ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence.
\nIn King of Ashes\, when eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father&rsquo\;s car accident\, he finds his young er brother\, Dante\, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister\, Nevea h\, exhausted from holding the family&mdash\;and the family business&mdash \;together. Neveah and their father\, who run the Carruthers Crematorium i n the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run\, see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident and Dante&rsquo\ ;s recklessness has placed them all in real danger. Roman\, a financial wh iz with a head for numbers and a talent for making his clients rich\, has some money to help buy his brother out of trouble. But in his work with wa nnabe tough guys\, he&rsquo\;s forgotten that there are real gangsters out there. As his bargaining chips go up in smoke\, Roman realizes that he ha s only one thing left to offer to save his brother: himself\, and his own particular set of skills. Roman begins his work for the criminals while Ne veah tries to uncover the long-ago mystery of what happened to their mothe r\, who disappeared when they were teenagers. But Roman is far less of a p ushover than the gangsters realize. He is willing to do anything to save h is family. Anything. Because everything burns.
\nASL interpr etation will be provided for all Six Bridges sessions held in CALS Ron Rob inson Theater. ASL interpretation for sessions at other CALS locations and Six Bridges venues (including CALS Main Library) will be provided by requ est. To request ASL interpretation\, please submit an ASL Interpretation Re quest form.
\nCALS will validate parking in the CALS Library Squ are surface lot and the CALS Parking Deck. The entrance to the surface lot is located on 2nd \;Street near River Market Ave. The entrance to the parking deck is located on Rock Street and can be accessed from President Clinton Ave. Street parking is also available throughout the River Market District (free after 6pm and on weekends).
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