Crashing Through Mirrors

With her background as a touring musician and years working among celebrities, Anonymous-9 paints a realistic story set in music-industry Los Angeles:


Bern Aldershot, former bass player for the legendary band Aldershot is attacked in a parking lot. His 1965 Rickenbacker bass is stolen, and that's not all. Desperate to avoid publicity Bern refuses to tell the police or anyone. Big mistake. Three months later depression has him staring down the barrel of his own gun. When his attacker resurfaces there is no one to help or confide in except one: a 16-year-old fangirl named London. Together they play cat and mouse with a suspected serial killer across Los Angeles, piecing together clues from a series of rapes and murders, challenging disbelieving cops and pissed off bikers in a wildly unusual chase and raging conclusion.


Anonymous-9’s CRASHING THROUGH MIRRORS is one wild, funky adrenaline rush—you don’t read it; you inhale it, like Peruvian marching powder on a mirror in the bathroom at the Viper Club, trying to get it all sucked up before the gendarmes bust down the door. This is one mighty talent. My heart’s still pounding.

—Les Edgerton, author of THE RAPIST, THE BITCH, and THE GENUINE, IMITATION, PLASTIC KIDNAPPING


"A novelette that locks you in the moment and smacks you through each page. Great depiction of Los Angeles, good tension in the subplots. I'd love to see this as a full novel. Recommended."

—Liam Sweeny, author of Welcome Back, Jack!


Hardboiled crime writer Anonymous-9 is the author of the best-selling HARD BITE series and named as one of five top debut novelists in 2013 by BOOKPEOPLE/MYSTERY PEOPLE independent bookstore and the winner of a Readers' Choice Award by The House of Crime & Mystery (Canada). She has publishing deals with Blasted Heath (Scotland), New Pulp Press, Down & Out Books, and Uncanny Books (USA). This is her first self-published novelette.