No One Left to Come Looking for You

A darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 1990s New York City. ManhattanΓÇÖs East Village,1993. Dive barsDIY music venuesshady weirdosand hard drugs are plentiful. Crime is high but rent is lowluring hopefulcreative kids from sleepy suburbs around the country. One of these is Jack S.a young New Jersey rock musician. Just a few days before his bandΓÇÖs biggest gigtheir lead singer goes missing with JackΓÇÖs prized basspresumably to hock it to feed his junk habit. JackΓÇÖs search for his buddy uncovers a sinister entanglement of crimes tied to local real estate barons looking to remake New York CityΓÇöand who might also be connected to the recent death of JackΓÇÖs punk rock mentor. Along the wayJack encounters a cast of colorful charactersincluding a bewitchingquick-witted scenester who favors dressing in a nurseΓÇÖs outfita monstrous hired killer with a devotion to both figure skating and edged weaponsa deranged if prophetic postwar novelistand a tough-talking cop who fancies himself a retro-cool icon of the homicide squad but is harboring a surprising secret. No One Left to Come Looking for You is a page-turning suspense novel that also serves as a love letter to a bygone era of New York City where young artists could still afford to chase their dreams.