I’ve learn two of Matt Witten’s novels – BOTH 5 STAR READS!

See my opinions of his “The Necklace” and “Killer Story“.

So… after I realized he has a brand new e-book popping out, I believed I’d offer you a heads-up. With this one, he has veered from his style a bit by setting his novel within the close to future, so it’s one thing utterly new, a speculative thriller.

What it’s about…

In a future the place companies personal every little thing – together with folks – one homicide may ignite a revolution. Twenty years from now, the US is totally privatized. The Large Six syndicates personal faculties, roads, police departments… even human beings.
When a younger immigrant girl – 51% owned by the syndicates – is brutally murdered, NYPD, Inc. detective Juke O’Keefe and his companion, crime advertising and marketing marketing consultant Haylee Navarro, catch the case. Pregnant and broke, Haylee is aware of they will’t crowdfund sufficient from a useless immigrant to pay for fundamental forensics, not to mention their paychecks. However Juke, together with his old-school sense of justice, is decided to search out the killer.
Their seek for the reality leads them to Juke’s ex, Safiya Jones, a Resistance chief on the syndicates’ most needed record. Because the three be a part of forces, they stumble onto a conspiracy designed to destroy the final shreds of American freedom. To rescue fifty-one
percenters – and everybody else – from syndicate management, they’ll must defeat essentially the most ruthless, highly effective AI on this planet.
51% is a gritty, fast-paced thriller about energy, justice, and what occurs when every little thing – even folks – may be owned.

Accessible for pre-order now!

Publication Date April 28, 2026 from Stage Finest Books

Matt Witten is a TV author, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who has written for a lot of TV exhibits together with Home, Fairly Little Liars, Regulation & Order, and CSI: Miami. His thriller The Necklace is an Amazon Editors’ choose and has been printed in seven languages and optioned for movie by Leonardo DiCaprio. His novel Killer Story received a Foreword Indie award for greatest thriller. Matt wrote 4  newbie sleuth novels, together with the Malice Home Award-winning Breakfast at Madeline’s, and has been
nominated for 2 Edgars and an Emmy.

Matt and his spouse Nancy used to stay in Los Angeles till their home burned down within the Palisades Hearth. The hearth was considerably serendipitous, as a result of it impressed them to maneuver to the shores of a wonderful lake within the Adirondacks in upstate New York, with many aspect journeys to San Francisco, Boston, Iceland, Wales, and elsewhere.

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