SHE RIDES AGAIN by Jordan Harper
December 13, 2018
PERSONAL INFORMATION: Born in MO; married;. Addresses: Home: Los Angeles, CA.
CAREER: Author; television writer and producer for The Mentalist, 2013-15,
and Gotham, 2015; has worked as a music journalist and film critic.
AWARDS: Best First Novel by an American Author Prize, Edgar Awards, 2018,
for She Rides Shotgun.
WRITINGS: American Death Songs (stories),
Beautiful Trash, 2013. (Contributor)
Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Bruce
Springsteen, edited by Joe Clifford, Gutter Books, 2014.
Love and Other Wounds (stories), Ecco Press (New York, NY), 2015.
She Rides Shotgun, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 2017.
She rides shotgun By: Harper, Jordan Fresh out of jail, Nate thrusts his 11-
year-old daughter into a world of robbery and violence in an effort to keep her
safe from the prison gang that has put a bounty on his head and murdered her
mother.
READ-ALIKES
1. The twelve lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti, Reason: Compelling,
suspenseful novels presenting flawed, sympathetic criminal fathers on the run
with their young daughters. She Rides Shotgun is grittier and faster-paced,
while The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is more of a coming-of-age version,
developing over a longer time. -- Karen Brissette
2. Blackbird by Michael L. Fiegel, Reason: These compelling, gritty works of
crime fiction feature criminal fathers (or father figures) with unusually honest
and forthright relationships with their preteen daughters, taking them on the
lam and teaching them lessons in self-defense, strategy, and weaponry along
the way. -- Karen Brissette
3. The good wife by Stewart O'Nan, - Reason: The fathers' crimes have dire
consequences for their children in these bleak novels. In one, the daughter
joins the criminal world with her father. In The Good Wife, a wife and child try
to survive while he's incarcerated. -- Lauren Havens
4. Presidio by Randy Kennedy, Reason: Gritty, atmospheric debut crime
novels feature well-developed characters on the hunt (Presidio) and on the run
(She Rides Shotgun). Presidio vividly portrays the violent Texas Panhandle of
the 1970s; She Rides Shotgun takes place in the contemporary southern
California underworld. -- Kaitlin Conner
5. Pyres by Derek Nikitas, Reason: Strong, underage females are central to
these bleak novels. Inadvertently drawn into the crime world that killed a
parent, the heroines reveal how tough they are. While both plots are
compelling, She Rides Shotgun may be more disturbing. -- Lauren Havens
6. Tijuana Straits by Kem Nunn Reason: These gritty noir novels feature
familarly hard-bitten, reformed ex-cons who wind up on the run while trying to
prorotect innocents: his own young precocious daughter in She Rides; in
Tijuana Straits, a female activist who runs afoul of drug gangs. -- Kim Burton
Interview with Jordan Harper
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