Moore, Jonathan. 2018. The Night Market. New York, NY: Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt. ISBN: 978-0544671898. $24.00 USD
The Night Market is the third book in Jonathan Moore’s Triptych of novels set in San Francisco (after The Poison Artist and The Dark Room), and this one kind of blew my mind!
Set in the near future, this SF noir mystery has a lot going for it. There is a very strong "Blade-Runner" feel to the setting in this book, with all the action being at night, or near dusk, constant rain, electric cars, areas of destruction and rubble adjacent to new extravagant edifices, LED postcard ads ("glow cards") littering the sidewalks and some futuristic equipment used by the characters in the book.
Detective Ross Carver and his partner, Cleve Jenner, are called to a very strange late-night crime scene where the body is covered in some kind of growing gray moss. FBI agents in Hazmat suits arrive and that’s the last thing the detectives remember: something has erased their memories.
Ross awakens days later with his new neighbor, Mia, at his side, with no memory of recent events, but with the knowledge that something is very, very wrong. I cannot write much more about his excellent mystery without giving too much away. Suffice it to say that it will leave you very unsettled, but with the feeling that you’ve been in the hands of a very creative and imaginative author. The books in this series can be read in any order, but I can recommend all three. Happy Reading!
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