Breaking the Dark

by Lisa Jewell

• Hardback
• 464 pages
• Signed by the author

Breaking the Dark, the first book in the brand-new Marvel Crime series, introduces fans to a grittier, street-level side of the Marvel Universe, and will continue with original novels featuring fan-favorite characters like Luke Cage, written by S.A. Cosby, and Daredevil, written by Alex Segura.

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'Never has a novelist captured me so consistently every single year for so long’ Gillian McAllister

'Absolutely perfect' Booklist

'A fun, entertaining read that really packs a punch!' Shari Lapena

'An exciting, riveting, adrenaline-pumping story' Liz Nugent

‘Immersive, page-turning, addictive, fresh and fun.' Andrea Mara

'Exhilarating, twisty and original. Agatha Christie meets Black Mirror!’ Claire Douglas

‘I was hooked from the start and couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Original, clever and cinematic.’ Alice Feeney

‘Absolutely compulsive, complex and gripping. A classic mystery weaved seamlessly into the Marvel Universe. I loved it.’ Nadine Matheson

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Meet Jessica Jones: a private investigator and retired super hero based out of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, who goes from job to job as a hard living, rough talking, loner. And then a wealthy Upper East Side woman pays her a visit. Amber Randall is concerned about her twin sixteen-year-olds, Lark and Fox, who have acted and looked very different since they returned from spending the summer with their British father in the UK.

She tells Jessica that her children have unnaturally perfect skin for teenagers and have lost all the tics and habits that made them who they were. They are not Lark and Fox, she tells Jessica. Something has happened to them.

To find out more, Jessica travels to Essex to talk to their father and once there meets Belle who is living a curiously isolated existence in a run-down farmhouse with her guardian Debra. Jessica knows that Lark and Fox had spent the summer with Belle—but can this unworldly teenager really be responsible for Lark and Fox's new personas?Jessica soon discovers that, behind Belle and Debra, evil geniuses are playing a dangerous game with technology in order to make the world a "better place", not caring who gets hurt, maimed or even killed in the process. Can Jessica stop them from wreaking destruction on a whole generation of young people?Nothing is certain in Lisa Jewell's gripping and most imaginative novel yet.