Blackout: A Pete Fernandez Mystery – Hill Nadell Literary Agency

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Alex Segura
Blackout: A Pete Fernandez Mystery
(Polis Books, Hardcover May 2018, Paperback July 2019)

2019 Anthony Award nominee for Best Novel
One of Literary Hub‘s “Most Anticipated Crime, Mystery, and Thriller Titles of 2018”
One of MysteryPeople‘s “Most Anticipated Books of 2018 (and 2019, too!)”
Listed on BookBub‘s “22 of the Best Mystery and Thriller Books Coming Spring 2018”
One of CrimeReads “10 Crime Books You Should Read in May”
Listed on Writer’s Bone‘s “17 Books That Should Be On Your Radar: April 2018”
Alex Segura is Nominated for a 2018 Anthony Award
Listed on Boston Globe’s “Summer Reading List 2018”

In BLACKOUT, the latest novel in Alex Segura’s acclaimed Pete Fernandez Mystery series, startling new evidence in a cold case that’s haunted Pete drags the exiled PI back to his hometown of Miami. But as Pete and his partner Kathy Bentley delve deeper into the unsolved murder, they become entangled in Miami’s obsession with a charismatic and dangerous cult leader and his even more menacing followers. At the same time, the detectives find themselves at odds with a Florida politician’s fixation on wealth, fame and power. It all converges in the heart of the Magic City and Pete is left scrambling to pick up the pieces—or die trying.

The Pete Fernandez novels have always run on two tracks – the long-buried Miami mystery that Pete is forced to solve, and Pete’s often unpredictable evolution from self-destructive alcoholic to somewhat functional private eye. In BLACKOUT, those two tracks blend into one dark, personal and deadly tale of dangerous obsession that will leave Pete Fernandez completely changed. It’s all been building to this.

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Praise for BLACKOUT
“Blackout is cool, vivid—and poignant. In Alex Segura’s capable hands, Florida becomes a haunted landscape where hope can’t quite be eradicated. We’re with Pete Fernandez every step of the way.”
—Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award-winning author of Unsub and Into the Black Nowhere

“Alex Segura is one of the writers who reminds me why I fell in love with P.I. fiction and wanted to write it.”
—Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of Sunburn

“Blackout has a sharp, twisty plot, but it also delivers on the human level—showing characters at their most vulnerable, damaged, and desperate while demonstrating their powers of resilience and insisting on the possibility for redemption.”
—Ivy Pochoda, author of Wonder Valley

“Expertly weaving the past and present, Alex Segura masterfully cranks the tension while revealing the demons that both haunt P.I. Pete Fernandez and drive him forward. Blackout will hook you on Fernandez and Alex Segura. Let’s have more, and soon.”
—Robert Crais, New York Times bestselling author of The Wanted, latest in the Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series

“Alex Segura’s latest is dark, devious, and devastating. Deftly shifting through three distinct periods in time, he shows us the scars that never heal, while allowing for moments of grace. Blackout is, quite simply, a knockout.”
—Hilary Davidson, Anthony Award-winning author of One Small Sacrifice

“Segura balances action and emotion in Blackout like a master craftsman.”
–MysteryPeople

“A hot summer read!”
–The Boston Globe

Praise for the Pete Fernandez Mystery Series

“Classic PI fiction in the best sense.”
—Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of Sunburn

“Squalid, sun-drenched noir at its best.”
—Kelly Braffet

“Pitch perfect in the key of hard-boiled.”
—Reed Farrel Coleman

“A noir page turner… Segura is a writer to watch.”
—Sara Gran

“Tense and taut. A series not to be missed.”
—Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author of Queenpin, Dare Me, and You Will Know Me

“Cool, compelling and completely believable.”
—Hank Phillippi Ryan

“The fourth book in Alex Segura’s series, this is not one to be missed by a master of the detective genre. ”
–Matthew Turbeville, MysteryPeople by BookPeople

“Murder, mayhem, Miami…Silent City knows that every city has its own dark and twisted personality. And so do its inhabitants. Take a chance and step inside.”
—Brad Meltzer, bestselling author of The House of Secrets

“At once a harrowing crime novel and a deeply human tale of struggle and redemption, Down the Darkest Street will keep you guessing—and gasping—until you’ve turned the final page.”
—Chris Holm, bestselling author of The Killing Kind

“Segura captures the spirit of modern Miami with its complicated past and conflicted present. Pete Fernandez is the perfect hero to walk the mean streets of both worlds.”
―Ace Atkins, New York Times bestselling author of Robert B. Parker’s Slow Burn and The Innocents

“With a rich setting and an engagingly complex main character, Dangerous Ends is a tense, gripping exploration of what happens when a bloody past collides with a dangerous present.”
―Lou Berney, Edgar Award-winning author of The Long and Faraway Gone

“With its smart dialogue and vivid settings, this series concentrates equally on the trajectory of Pete Fernandez’s life and the mysteries he tries to solve. Fine crime fiction.”
–Booklist

“Segura’s latest offers a mind-spinning mix of dark and darker elements – not to mention multiple literal head-blowing moments, and, part-way through, a super-shocking surprise.”
–Seattle Review of Books

Alex Segura is a novelist and comic book writer. He is the author of the Miami crime novels Silent City, Down The Darkest Street, and Dangerous Ends, featuring newsman-turned-P.I. Pete Fernandez. He has also written a number of comic books, including the best-selling and critically acclaimed Archie Meets Kiss storyline, the “Occupy Riverdale” story and the upcoming Archie Meets Ramones. He lives in New York with his wife. He is a Miami native. Follow him at @alex_segura.