Crashing Through Mirrors

Bass guitarist Bern Aldershot would rather forget the night he was brutally attacked in a dark Los Angeles parking lot and his treasured '65 Rickenbacker stolen. Figuring he'll forget the trauma with time, Bern avoids the papparazzi by not reporting the crime or saying anything to anyone. But that backfires when three months later depression has him looking down the barrel of his own rifle. More

With her background as a touring musician, and years working among celebrities. Anonymous-9 paints a realistic backdrop for her story set in music-industry Los Angeles:

Bern Aldershot, former bass player for the legendary band Aldershot is attacked in a parking lot. His 1965 Rickenbacker bass is stolen, but that's not all. It brings him to the end of his rope. In Bern's ruined world, the only person there to help is a 16-year-old fangirl. Together they hunt his attacker through Los Angeles, piecing together clues from a series of rapes and murders, crossing disbelieving cops and pissed off bikers as Bern's attacker plays 'cat and mouse'.

Anonymous-9’s CRASHING THROUGH MIRRORS is one wild, funky adrenaline rush—you don’t read it; you inhale it, like Peruvian marching powder on a mirror in the bathroom at the Viper Club, trying to get it all sucked up before the gendarmes bust down the door. This is one mighty talent. My heart’s still pounding.

—Les Edgerton, author of THE RAPIST, THE BITCH, and
THE GENUINE, IMITATION, PLASTIC KIDNAPPING

"A novelette that locks you in the moment and smacks you through each page. Great depiction of Los Angeles, good tension in the subplots. I'd love to see this as a full novel. Recommended.
—Liam Sweeny, author of Welcome Back, Jack!

Hardboiled crime writer Anonymous-9 is the author of the best-selling HARD BITE series and named as one of five top debut novelists in 2013 by BOOKPEOPLE/MYSTERY PEOPLE independent bookstore and the winner of a Readers' Choice Award by The House of Crime & Mystery (Canada). She has publishing deals with Blasted Heath (Scotland), New Pulp Press, Down & Out Books, and Uncanny Books (USA). This is her first self-published novelette.

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