Lola on Fire

“John
Wick meets Jane Hawk in Lola on Fire, a wild, relentless read. The
action is terrific, the writing crisp, the characters unforgettable.” — New
York Times bestselling author Michael Koryta

Brody Ellis
is short on luck and even shorter on cash to buy the medication his sister
Molly needs.

Desperate,
he robs a convenience store, but on the way out, he bumps into a young woman
and loses his wallet. Just when he expects the cops to arrive, the phone rings.
It’s Blair Mayo—the woman he bumped into—and she’s got the missing billfold. Brody
will get it back, but only if he does her a favor: steal her late mother’s
diamonds from her wicked stepmom.

Cornered
with no way out, Brody agrees. But when he gets to the house, he finds a
gruesome crime scene—and a security camera. Brody knows he’s been framed.

Back home,
the terrified young man gets another call. The police won’t get the
incriminating video footage, Blair says. Instead, her daddy, the notorious
mobster Jimmy Latzo, will exact his own kind of revenge.

Brody and
Molly realize that they’ve become pawns in a mysterious game—one that involves
a notorious enforcer named Lola Bear who brutally crossed paths with Jimmy
Latzo twenty-six years before. . . a ghost from the past who is intimately
connected to their lives.

Rio Youers is the British Fantasy and Sunburst Award–nominated author of The Bang-Bang Sisters, Lola on Fire, and No Second Chances. His 2017 thriller, The Forgotten Girl, was a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. He is the writer of Sleeping Beauties, a comic book series based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King and Owen King. Rio lives in Ontario, Canada, with his wife and their two children.