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The Janes: An Alice Vega Novel
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The page-turning follow-up to acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down features the tenacious PI Alice Vega and her electric partnership with Max Caplan, as they follow a shocking murder investigation to it’s even more shocking conclusion.
 
On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discovered. They have no names, no IDs, but one of the Jane Does holds a note bearing the name, “Alice Vega.” The police and FBI reach out to Vega, a private investigator known for finding the missing. Fearing the possibility of a human trafficking ring, Vega enlists the help of her one-time partner, former cop Max “Cap” Caplan.
 
Despite a case with so few leads, Alice Vega is a powerful woman whose determination is matched only by her intellect, and, along with her partner Cap, she will stop at nothing to find the Janes’ killers before it is too late.
 
Louisa Luna is writing new classics of crime fiction, and her partnership of Vega and Cap is rightfully joining the pantheon of the most memorable thrillers.
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On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discovered. They have no names, no IDs, but one of the Jane Does holds a note bearing the name, “Alice Vega.” The police and FBI reach out to Vega, a private investigator known for finding the missing. Fearing the possibility of a human trafficking ring, Vega enlists the help of her one-time partner, former cop Max “Cap” Caplan.
 
Despite a case with so few leads, Alice Vega is a powerful woman whose determination is matched only by her intellect, and, along with her partner Cap, she will stop at nothing to find the Janes’ killers before it is too late.
 
Louisa Luna is writing new classics of crime fiction, and her partnership of Vega and Cap is rightfully joining the pantheon of the most memorable thrillers.
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        September 30, 2019
        What starts as a straightforward, if extremely challenging, assignment—figuring out who killed two barely teenage Latina Jane Does and dumped them in the San Diego, Calif., area—quickly turns treacherous for PIs Alice Vega and Max Caplan in Luna’s gripping sequel to 2018’s Two Girls Down. Brought in by SDPD Cmdr. Roland Otero to investigate under the radar, the pair get an early break from forensic evidence that not only offers them an angle into the case but strongly suggests that the girls were being sexually trafficked. When the partners swiftly identify a prime suspect, Otero bafflingly thanks them for their efforts and asks them to stand down. Which is the last thing that pit-bull-focused Vega is about to do, plunging the now-rogue team into a perilous sprint to stay one step ahead of the ostensible good guys as they race to unravel a plot as dark and twisted as one of the tunnels the bad guys use for smuggling between Mexico and the U.S. Though the fast and furious action sometimes stretches credulity, in marked contrast to the gritty realism of the rest of the novel, this dynamic duo rates a long run. Agent: Mark Falkin, Falkin Literary.

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        November 15, 2019
        A former police officer and a for-profit vigilante reunite to fight crime and corruption on the southern border. Divorced ex-cop Max "Cap" Caplan is on the verge of accepting a full-time PI position with a Denville, Pennsylvania, law firm when he receives an email from bounty hunter Alice Vega: She'll pay him $10,000 if he'll join her on a job in San Diego. Even though his last collaboration with Vega (Two Girls Down, 2018) imperiled both him and his teenage daughter, Nell, Cap drops everything and hops a plane to California, where he learns that he and Vega will be working as off-book consultants for the Drug Enforcement Administration with assistance from the San Diego Police Department. Both agencies suspect that two murdered Jane Does--young Latinas with almost sequentially numbered IUDs--were being trafficked for prostitution but are too busy dealing with Mexican drug tunnels to investigate. Despite having received pledges of full support, Vega senses their employers are hiding something, and her suspicion is confirmed when the pair uncovers a lead and gets kicked off the case. Undeterred, Cap and Vega redouble their efforts to find any remaining women and bring everyone involved to justice, consequences be damned. Luna delivers nearly 200 pages of by-the-numbers mystery before launching headlong into an intricately plotted, adrenaline-fueled conspiracy thriller. The stakes escalate as the odds against Cap and Vega mount, ratcheting up tension and intensifying drive while developing the characters. In contrast with her debut, Luna this time develops the burgeoning attraction between empathetic Cap and Jack Reacher-esque Vega, resulting in a series duo with legs. Luna's latest entertains while subverting gender stereotypes and confronting the politics of immigration.

        COPYRIGHT(2019) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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        Starred review from November 15, 2019
        PI Alice Vega is nothing less than an utterly compelling protagonist in her second case (after Two Girls Down, 2018), which resumes her remarkable partnership with fellow PI Max Caplan. As Max says, you don't get any more off-the-books than Alice, and her throttle is wide open when the duo is invited to join the investigation when two teenage Latina Jane Does are found dead in the San Diego area, one with a scrap of paper bearing Alice's name clutched in her hand. Alice and Max follow a trail with some suspicious cops and a shady DEA team that eventually brings them up against Mexico's biggest cartel boss. The victims were just two of many the drug lord transported to the U.S. on his immigration railroad ?tunnels big enough to drive tricked-out Smart cars through. Alice is determined to rescue the rest of his girls and wields her weapon of choice, a nasty pair of bolt cutters, against anyone who stands in her way. Both Alice and Max take a beating or two, looking more and more like animals swiftly moving from the endangered column to the extinct. Max is subject to a savage electrocution. Alice is stabbed, although that does not deter her from the occasional headstand meditation, in bandages. A somewhat Shakespearean ending satisfies with triumphant women standing strong on a stage littered with battered villains.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)

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        August 1, 2019

        In this follow-up to the YA author's widely heeded first adult novel, Two Girls Down, the bodies of two young women are found outside of San Diego. They carry no identification, and no one seems to be looking for them. Suspecting human trafficking, the police and the FBI turn to unorthodox private investigator Alice Vega (with partner Max Caplan). Topical chills from a rising star.

        Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discovered. They have no names, no IDs, but one of the Jane Does holds a note bearing the name, “Alice Vega.” The police and FBI reach out to Vega, a private investigator known for finding the missing. Fearing the possibility of a human trafficking ring, Vega enlists the help of her one-time partner, former cop Max “Cap” Caplan.
 
Despite a case with so few leads, Alice Vega is a powerful woman whose determination is matched only by her intellect, and, along with her partner Cap, she will stop at nothing to find the Janes’ killers before it is too late.
 
Louisa Luna is writing new...
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