Marvel Crime

In her most imaginative novel yet, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell (None of This Is True) launches the Marvel Crime series of thriller books for adults with an original story starring the private detective Jessica Jones. Meet Jessica Jones: Retired superhero, private investigator, loner. She tried her best to be a shiny spandex crimefighter, but that life only led to unspeakable trauma. Now she avoids that world altogether and works on surviving day-to-day in Hell's Kitchen, New York. The morning a distraught mother comes into her office, Jessica would prefer to nurse her hangover and try to forget last night's poor choices. But something about Amber Randall's story strikes a chord with her. Amber is adamant that something happened to her teenage twins while they were visiting their father in the UK. The twins don't act like themselves, and they now have flawless skin, have lost their distinctive tics and habits, and keep talking about a girl named Belle. Amber insists her children have been replaced by something horrible, something "perfect." Traveling to a small village in the British countryside, Jessica meets the mysterious Belle, who lives a curiously isolated life in an old farmhouse with a strange woman who claims to be her guardian. Can this unworldly teenager really be responsible for the Randall twins' new personas? Why does the strange little village of Barton Wallop seem to harbor dark energies and mysteries in its tight-knit community? A mother's intuition is never wrong. And Jessica knows that nothing in life is perfect, not these kids, not her on-again, off-again relationship with Luke Cage, and certainly not Jessica herself. But even as she tries to buy into the idea that better days are ahead, Jessica Jones has seen all too clearly that behind every promise of perfection trails a dark, dangerous shadow. “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.

Matt Murdock defends the Punisher in the trial of the century-the murder of the Kingpin-while staving off a war for the gangland throne as Daredevil. Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Alex Segura (Secret Identity) pens the second all-new Marvel Crime thriller novel for adult readers. "One of the best superhero prose writers of this generation tackling one of the great superheroes of all time! This delivers everything you'd hoped for." -Brian Michael Bendis, Eisner-winning writer for Daredevil and Ultimate Spider-Man "Alex Segura brings his unique voice to the Daredevil mythology with his introspective and uncompromising look at the character." -S.A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of King of Ashes "Crime-fighting is hell in this gripping urban noir.... Segura's twin experience in prose and comics serves him well here: he effortlessly conjures the heightened atmosphere of a Marvel comic without tipping into cliché. Superhero fans will be delighted." -Publishers Weekly "Enemy of My Enemy is a bruised, burning love letter to Hell's Kitchen-its alleys thick with ambition, its shadows alive with shifting loyalties." -Ivy Pochada, award winning author of Sing Her Down "Enemy of My Enemy by Alex Segura is a riveting blend of legal drama and high-stakes action that takes the reader into the heart of Daredevil's most personal and dangerous challenge yet. This book is a crime thriller enthusiast's dream[.]" -Yasmin Angoe, bestselling author of Not What She Seems When reports come in that the Kingpin and a police officer have been killed and that Frank Castle (aka the Punisher) has turned himself in for it, Matt Murdock senses holes in the narratives the media and the streets are quick to run with. Both criminals have been Matt's nemeses when he dons the cowl of the Daredevil, and there's no denying that New York is better off without its Kingpin and with the Punisher behind bars. And yet . . . while the Punisher is a murderous vigilante, he doesn't kill cops. And he doesn't turn himself in. Castle certainly deserves prison for all of the other crimes he has committed in the past. However, Matt's indominable sense of justice insists that nobody should be locked away for crimes they didn't actually commit. Representing the vigilante in court, Matt enters a contest of wills and guile with Castle to try and uncover the game beneath the game. And when Matt's girlfriend takes the stand and complicates matters, there's truly no rest for the wicked or the just. As the Kingpin's absence causes passion and ambitions to run hot in Hell's Kitchen, Matt must decide if justice means the letter of the law, what's best for the citizen on the streets, or where his heart leading him. Enemy of My Enemy continues the Marvel Crime series that began with Lisa Jewell's Breaking the Dark, and brings fans into a grittier, street-level side of the Marvel Universe. Marvel Crime novels build on one another but do not require in-depth familiarity with Marvel or the other books in the series.