'An original, compelling, hard-hitting thriller, Dead Note takes off like a bullet train and doesn't let up until the heart-stopping finale' A.A. CHAUDHURI
A killer's greatest hit starts with a song...
Mia Cordova's world imploded when her father was shot dead in front of her while singing a karaoke classic. The police insisted that his death was the result of a random barroom brawl - an open and shut case - but when, years later, another man is killed in the same way, singing the same song, Mia is convinced the two killings must be connected.
When a newspaper article draws a link between the murders, Mia is thrown into an investigation that leads her into Manila's underworld of interrogations, gambling rings and shootouts. With the police quick to cast suspicion on her, Mia must bring her father's killer to justice alone. But can she catch a killer before she becomes his next victim? Victor Manibo (Author)
Victor Manibo is a Filipino fiction writer living in New York. A 2022 Lambda Literary Emerging Voices Fellow, he is the author of the science fiction novels The Sleepless and Escape Velocity. Dead Note is his first crime novel. Find him online at victormanibo.com and on most social media platforms @victormanibo.
An arresting, dual-narrative thriller with a true crime twist about a washed-up singer in a cat-and-mouse chase across Manila as she tries to bring her father's killer to justice while avoiding becoming his next victim... BASED ON A REAL PHENOMENON: Story based on a real social phenomenon in the Philippines, the 'My Way' killings. These were a number of fatal disputes which arose from the singing of the song 'My Way' by Frank Sinatra. The phenomenon was covered by The Guardian, The New York Times and The Telegraph. AUTHENTIC VOICE: Protagonist is a queer Filipino and Dead Note is written by a queer, Filipino author. Manibo also participated in the EDSA II protests, a significant historical event within the novel. GENUINELY UNIQUE CRIME NOVEL: Manibo has created an original protagonist, a former child star seeking to find out the truth about her father's murder, all set against the incredibly captured backdrop of the political conflict of the Philippines in the early 2000s. An original, compelling, hard-hitting thriller, Dead Note takes off like a bullet train and doesn't let up until the heart-stopping finale
