✦ Debut Crime Thriller ✦ Pigs N' Payback Series ✦
Everything
Burns
A Pigs N' Payback Novel
"Everybody lies. Especially your narrator."
Out now. Start reading tonight, and find out how much of Jacob’s story you actually believe.
✦ Debut Crime Thriller ✦ Pigs N' Payback Series ✦
A Pigs N' Payback Novel
"Everybody lies. Especially your narrator."
Out now. Start reading tonight, and find out how much of Jacob’s story you actually believe.
Early Praise
I read the whole thing in two sittings and spent the second one arguing with the narrator out loud. Jacob is infuriating, charming, and completely impossible to put down. I didn't see the ending coming — and I read crime fiction for a living.
— S.M., Beta Reader & Crime Fiction Reviewer
Silverwood has found something rare: a crime novel that's genuinely funny without ever losing its nerve. The voice is the whole game here, and it never slips. Everything Burns reads like Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen had a very bad week together.
— T.R., Advance Reader
The setup sounds like a hundred other thrillers. The execution is unlike anything I've read. By chapter three I trusted the narrator completely. By chapter ten I realized that had been the whole trap. Genuinely clever and surprisingly moving.
— K.L., ARC Reader
★ Early reader quotes. Read more reviews on Amazon ★
The Setup
"A for-hire problem-solver and his secretive new neighbor fall in love while lying to each other — and, reader, so is your narrator."
Jacob keeps two business cards in his wallet. The first says Business Consultant — and it's legitimate. When a company is bleeding out and the owners need someone who asks no questions and solves problems fast, Jacob is the call they make. He's good at it. Methodical. Discreet. Expensive.
The second card doesn't exist. But if it did, it might say Adjuster. That's the work Jacob does after dark — the kind that involves gasoline, blueprints, staged break-ins, and the particular skill set that polite society would rather pretend isn't for hire. He's equally good at that. Better, maybe. And considerably more careful.
Then Emily moves in next door.
She's smart, funny, and devastating in ways that make Jacob forget every rule he lives by. For the first time he wants something he can't take apart and rebuild: a real life, with a real person, in a world where everything about him is a lie.
And Emily? She's terrified. Not of Jacob — of how much she wants this to be real, and how little it would take to lose him forever.
As Jacob's biggest job spirals toward disaster, the only thing more dangerous than a secret is two people who'd rather burn everything down than say the one honest thing that might save them.
A comedic crime caper with a narrator who swears he's telling you the truth. He's not. But you'll forgive him.
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“Everything Burns reads like Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen had a very bad week together.”
— T.R., Advance Reader
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✦ Pigs N' Payback Series ✦
Jacob's story is just getting started. The Pigs N' Payback series continues — and the next job is going to be bigger, messier, and considerably harder to walk away from.
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