I confess this is my first Jonathan Moore book but it won't be my last! Set in the near future, homicide detectives, Carver and Jenner are called to a suspicious scene where they encounter what can only be called an X-files sort of situation that leaves them both with no memories of what happened. When Carver awakens in his own bed, he finds his lovely neighbor, Mia reading aloud to him and she has been caring for him for two days. Intrigued, he tries to discover more about her while struggling to regain his own memories. But none of this is easy and as he and Jenner are drawn deeper into a mysterious plot involving mind-control and murder, he realizes there is more to Mia than meets the eye. Can she be trusted? Frighteningly real and tightly paced, this book is a great thriller!

The Night Market Jonathan Moore


Set in the near future, I don’t think it would be right to label this book as Sci-fi, more like an anticipation of how things will be in 50 years time.

Carver and Jenner are two Inspectors in the San Francisco Police Department. On Thursday night they attend a grisly murder scene with two uniform cops.

The body is decomposing before their eyes, but not in a way they have ever seen before. As they begin to examine it a HazMats team burst into the room and usher them through decontamination.

Sunday morning Carver wakes up in bed with no memory of anything since Wednesday.

His neighbour, the Hermit like Mia, is reading a book at his bedside and informs him she saw some people bring him home on Friday, and that she had looked after him ever since.

Carver is the main protagonist of the book and most of the narrative is told from his point of view. As he battles to regain his memory he starts to put together what happened to him and his partner; but who can he trust, Jenner is back at work as though nothing had happened, and he knows nothing about Mia. There is nobody else.

His investigation links to the murder he and Jenner had been investigating for some time. Somebody was killing people in China Town. They were having their faces carved open and then being cut in half. How is this linked to Thursday nights body.

His discoveries will put him in danger, test his relationships and see people die.

All of this in the first 15% of the book (on an e-reader) and what follows is a good old fashioned conspiracy theory set in a slightly futuristic San Francisco.

The story is compelling, and I found myself totally engrossed in it. Jonathan Moore has set the story in a time which is not unconceivable, and his descriptions of the City, its population, its crimes, and its utter deterioration are as addictive as the characters.

I don’t usually read Sci-fi, and I haven’t seen anything in the blurb for this book to suggest it is, but the story is so well written that I didn’t realise it was set in the future until I was hooked by it. Then there was no putting it down.

I will be looking up more of Mr Moore’s books. This one is very good.

Pages: 272
Publisher: Orion
Publishing Date: 11 January 2018.
Available to pre-order on Amazon

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to preview The Night Market by Jonathan Moore.

What a brilliant book! It reminded me, in setting, of Blade Runner, the great movie based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. And this is a compliment because said movie is one of my favorites (and not mine alone). Night Market has, from page one, the same chilling atmosphere. The more chilling because it is set in a future that is all to near and sometimes even here already.
An SF book for fans of thrillers or a thriller for SF fans? It is both and more. It paints a vivid picture of a near future I don’t want to live in. But do I have a choice? The people in the book think they do. But can they really? The characters are compelling, the action is real and most of all, it gives you plenty food for thought. I will certainly try and find more books by this author.

"Do you ever think there's maybe something that's gone wrong with the world?"

The setting is San Francisco, but in a possibly near future time, when Inspector Ross Carver and his partner Jenner come upon a sight so unusual -- well the dead body part is not out of the ordinary -- it's the fact that it looks like it is has been cooked and eaten that takes them by surprise. Moments later, the FBI storms their scene and whisks them off to be decontaminated. Carver wakes a few days later to find his neighbor, Mia, reading to him. What follows is an incredible tale of greed and memory manipulation that has affected the entire society.

This was such a fast paced, action packed thriller that I could not put it down once I read the first few lines. The writing is excellent and the characters are immediately compelling as is the story line. It's part a scary treatise on what is happening in the lives of consumers, and also a complex mystery involving a shady fringe group and a diabolical scheme. There's a bit of a sci-fi element to the narrative and I absolutely loved the theme and the execution of the book's premise. I've only previously read THE DARK ROOM by this author, but am dying to get a hold of the other book in this literary triptych, THE POISON ARTIST. The picture that the author paints of a world in decline is enough to make me take a step back from my daily life and contemplate this alternate reality. It could happen.

I just got the approval today and couldn't wait to get to it and read it in one sitting. Highly recommended!

Something strange is happening in this wonderful conspiracy science fiction thriller "The Night Market" by Jonathan Moore. For fans of the "Pines" trilogy by Blake Crouch.

San Francisco Police Department Inspector Ross Carver has stumbled upon a crime scene with his partner Jenner that has deeper and more horrific implications than they can first see. The body they find is badly decomposed and as they're starting to inspect the crime scene, FBI agents show up in hazmat suits claiming jurisdiction and that the crime scene is contaminated.

Carver and Jenner are then quarantined and run through a decontamination procedure. Only when Carver wakes up...three days later...no one remembers anything about that night, and even his superiors have a story that he was out sick and his partner Jenner also doesn't have a clear recollection.

Trying to get the pieces together of what happened, Carver enlists the help of his neighbor, Mia Wescott, who had been taking care of him during the three days he was recovering. What they stumble onto is a conspiracy so vast, it puts them and everyone else questioning the events of that night in danger and shows them that almost no one is to be trusted.

The vast conspiracy leads to more than the reader thinks and has implications that raise ethical and moral questions beyond even the criminal activity.

It's a surefire thriller that will have you wondering what's next. The best kind of genre thriller that combines the gritty world of detectives and the world of science fiction. Should be on everyone's list of what to read for 2018.

A terrific thriller that would even make Dan Brown of 'The DaVinci Code' wonder why he didn't write this.

Thank you to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and NetGalley for early access to this title set to be released on January 16th, 2018.

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to preview The Night Market by Jonathan Moore. A police detective and his partner come upon a strange crime scene - someone (or what''s left of him - is dead and unrecognizable. As they are investigating, the "FBI" rushes in and takes them away. They are taken to a holding center where they are stripped and sanitized. The only problem is that neither of the police man remember what happened - records are erased, gps data gone, cell phones wiped clean, and no memories. Inspector Carver believes there is something bigger going on here, and he wants to get to the bottom of this mystery - or die trying.
Great characters, descriptive and detailed - the author takes you on a somewhat appocolyptic journey for the truth. Very good.

The Night Market is certainly a thrill ride. It's a great set up with this bizarre crime and then Carver having to not only solve it, but piece together his missing memories at the same time. Carver is your classic hard-boiled detective, swimming through layers of betrayal and corruption while trying to get the skinny on the femme fatale character of Mia.

Tons of twists and turns. The world reminded me of Blade Runner San Francisco-style, which was a plus in my books. And I loved the thematic commentary on a consumer culture run rampant.

Apparently this is the third and final book in a series featuring loosely interconnected characters. I didn't know that at the time, and it didn't impact my reading enjoyment, though it did make me want to go back and read the others. Loved it!

Thank you to NetGalley and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for a copy in exchange for a fair and honest review.

**This book will be featured on my Curl up with a good book Sunday blog post on Sept. 17/17. I will also post to goodreads and bootlicks then.

Brilliant. The last book in the loosely connected Noir San Francisco trilogy and probably my favourite of the three, The Night Market is creepy and intense, set years after the events of the previous books and throwing us into a world that is the same but also quite quite different.

Beautifully descriptive both in character and setting the San Francisco we find in “The Night Market” has a tangibly different feel to it than before. Carver lives here, is part of the law here and so through him we can see the different nuances and the sense of feeling Mr Moore brings to the narrative is wonderfully absorbing.

From the very first chapters where we, the readers, feel the full impact of what happens to Carver, then watch him haunted by the missing memories, determined to find out the truth, it is utterly gripping and plays on your mind while you are away from it -It never really lets up until that very last page, with its beautifully emotive ending. The theme running through it is scarily authentic, a possible future that is far from beyond the realms of possibility – a thought provoking nightmare journey that Carver takes us on with him.

An unpredictable story told with razor sharp edges and deeply felt impassioned moments, The Night Market cleverly and rather brutally yet beautifully brings an end to this show – With The Poison Artist you get a psychological thriller with a classically layered unreliable narrator, with The Dark Room you get a tense, nail biting police procedural and character drama, with The Night Market you get a speculative dystopian tale and holding all of these together is that city – San Francisco – in all its glory – and the people that live there.

If you’ve not read The Poison Artist or The Dark Room yet then I recommend them – whilst each novel stands on its own, read all together they make a complete work of art.

Highly Recommended

**Review also available on Goodreads**

Detective Ross Carver is on the scene of a murder in a stately home, trying to figure out what the hell is all over his victim. Whatever it is, it appears to be dissolving the man’s skin. Carver is still musing when federal agents storm the house and frog march him to a trailer to be decontaminated where he’s forced to drink a noxious liquid that gives him seizures and then given electrical shocks until he passes out. When he comes to his senses two days later, he’s in his own bed, while his neighbor Mia reads aloud to him. What the hell? He has little memory of what happened before he came to, but Mia tells him he was carried home by two cops who said he’s been poisoned. Thus begins one of the most twisted, puzzling books I’ve read this year. Moore is a master at creating suspense, this book is not be missed