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"Brown has created strong, intriguing leads in Jade and Whitney, both seemingly poised to continue in future adventures...a promising debut...an engaging novel." ?Kirkus Reviews
"Don't Speak is fast-paced, entertaining, and full of twists?I thoroughly enjoyed it. Jade Harrington is a kickass heroine." ?Meg Gardiner, author of UNSUB
The nursery rhyme was wrong. Words can hurt you.
Ambitious, twenty-something FBI Special Agent Jade Harrington cuts her vacation short to investigate the murder of a conservative radio personality only to discover that he may be the victim of a serial killer. Whitney Fairchild, the elegant and charismatic Democratic senator from Missouri, campaigns in a cutthroat race for president of the United States. Cole Brennan, the most popular conservative talk-show host in the nation, battles nightly to save his country and help the incumbent Republican president maintain his 'inner conservative' to win re-election.
The lives of Jade, Whitney, Cole, and the killer?who has an agenda of his own?are on a collision course. That course will not just impact them each in ways they could never have foreseen, but also the future of the United States of America. Amidst a backdrop of contemporary power politics driven by the influence of talk radio and social media, Don't Speak thrills even as it explores many of the complex issues facing Americans today.
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J. L. Brown (also writing as Julie L. Brown) writes gripping political thrillers featuring FBI Agent Jade Harrington and powerful historical fiction exploring perseverance, freedom, and legacy.
She is the award-winning author of the Jade Harrington series, which include the novels, The Paine Society, The Divide, Rule of Law, and Don't Speak, and the short story, "Few Are Chosen." She is also the author of the historical fiction, Bend, Don't Break (Wishing Shelf Independent Book Award finalist), the alternative-history novel, No One Will Save Us (Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist, National Indie Excellence Book Award finalist, Independent Press Award winner). Her books have been praised by Kirkus Reviews, the Midwest Book Review, and the Seattle Book Review.
She is a member of Black Women Write Seattle, Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America-Northwest, Sisters in Crime-Puget Sound, and the Alliance of Independent Authors.
Julie earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. She resides with her family in the Pacific Northwest, where she is working on her next novel.