Hero: A Novel

A Booklist, Kirkus, and Deadly Pleaures Magazine Best Thriller of the Year

A private security agent finds that being branded as the City of Angels' latest hero could also make her its next victim. . . .


Justine Poole takes her job seriously providing security for wealthy and high-profile Hollywood stars. When she prevents a brazen robbery at the Beverly Hills home of two of her clients—killing two of the five armed robbers in the process—she is initially lauded in the media as a local hero....