a tale that reads like James M Cain modernised by Bret Easton Ellis. It will make you squirm
- Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian Unlimited
In his psychological thriller Hard Feelings...Starr has plumbed the shallows of his brittle characters and their selfish lives, depicting them in a hard-edged style that is clean, cold and extremely chilling
New York Times Book Review
Jason Starr is the first writer of his generation to convincingly update the modern crime novel by giving it provocative new spins and Hard Feelings is his most accomplished thriller yet. It might be new-school noir but like the classics of the genre it has a brutal escalation of tension, pungent dialogue, a hardboiled simplicity and grace, and a whopper of an ending. It's also darkly funny and a pure pleasure to read. As you race through it you realize that Jim Thompson has just moved to Manhattan
- Brett Easton Ellis,
Convincing and entertaining . . . Hard Feelings dances a mesmerizing tango between reality and its menacing shadow
Time Out New York
a gripping novel of paranoia and obsession that's damn near impossible to put down
- Jim Driver, Time Out