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Heartless: A John Zalerian Novel (Book 1) Detective Thriller
Los Angeles is on life support.
A heartless killer wants to pull the plug.
Disaster has torn the city open—earthquakes, fire, collapse—and left it trembling between riot and surrender. In the wreckage, Detective John Zalerian hunts a ghost, a serial killer who moves through chaos like smoke through a dying man’s lungs. Every lead dissolves. Every truth slips away.
Then a witness crawls out of the rubble—fragile, defiant, alive. She lands squarely in the killer’s sights and somewhere dangerous inside Zalerian’s heart. If she dies, the case dies with her—and whatever is left of Los Angeles may follow.
With the LAPD reduced to bone and nerve and the city spiraling toward collapse, Zalerian descends into the scorched underbelly of a broken metropolis. Refugee camps replace neighborhoods. Mercy is traded for survival. And the line between man and monster has long since burned to ash.
Heartless is a gritty crime thriller and police procedural set in a near-future, disaster-ravaged Los Angeles—a dystopian noir where justice flickers like a dying—and the systems meant to protect the city may be the ones quietly killing it.
Perfect for fans of Michael Connelly, James Patterson, and dark, character-driven thrillers, Heartless takes the hunt for a serial killer to the edge of the world.
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A heartless killer wants to pull the plug.
Disaster has torn the city open—earthquakes, fire, collapse—and left it trembling between riot and surrender. In the wreckage, Detective John Zalerian hunts a ghost, a serial killer who moves through chaos like smoke through a dying man’s lungs. Every lead dissolves. Every truth slips away.
Then a witness crawls out of the rubble—fragile, defiant, alive. She lands squarely in the killer’s sights and somewhere dangerous inside Zalerian’s heart. If she dies, the case dies with her—and whatever is left of Los Angeles may follow.
With the LAPD reduced to bone and nerve and the city spiraling toward collapse, Zalerian descends into the scorched underbelly of a broken metropolis. Refugee camps replace neighborhoods. Mercy is traded for survival. And the line between man and monster has long since burned to ash.
Heartless is a gritty crime thriller and police procedural set in a near-future, disaster-ravaged Los Angeles—a dystopian noir where justice flickers like a dying—and the systems meant to protect the city may be the ones quietly killing it.
Perfect for fans of Michael Connelly, James Patterson, and dark, character-driven thrillers, Heartless takes the hunt for a serial killer to the edge of the world.
Read now with one click!
326 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 12, 2024
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November 20, 2024
I read Feldman's first three novels about former Sergeant Lenny Small, so I was familiar with the setting of this novel, but it's somewhat different. Those novels were about dealing with disaster, but Heartless is a detective story with all the twists and turns you would expect. Better, although it ends with the mystery resolved, it also hints of more beyond the immediate case, so we can look forward to more.
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