Alex Vega & Max Caplan

Created by Louisa Luna

“There was always a worse thing that you couldn’t see, and it was closer than you thought.” — a maxim of Alex’s old boss in fugitive recovery

Wary, thirty-something loner ALEX VEGA has taken her old boss’s maxim to heart–she’s definitely a gal who sees things as half-empty, and all the yoga in the world won’t change that.  She used to work in fugitive recovery, but now she’s a private investigator, specializing in missing persons, mostly children. She lives alone in a house in Central California, but she has a gun and will travel. She also has a partner of sorts, MAX “CAP” CAPLAN, a former Pennsylvania cop turned private eye, whom she calls in occasionally. He’s middle-aged, divorced, with a teenage daughter, Nell, he’s trying to raise with his ex, but you know it ain’t easy. The cases Alex and Max work aren’t pretty–they’re messy and dark, and tuck neatly into Alex’s bleak worldview, but they’re hard, taut and gripping tales, full of the evil that men (and occasionally women) do.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Louisa Luna is the author of the Alice Vega novels The Janes and Two Girls Down as well as Brave New Girl and Crooked. She was born and raised in San Francisco and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter. The third entry in the Alex Vega series, Hideout (2022),  won the 2023 Sue Grafton Memorial Award, bestowed by the Mystery Writers of America.

UNDER OATH

• “Flawless, captivating thriller with a heroine who could be the female Jack Reacher.” — The Times (UK)
• “Luna takes the usual private eye tropes and imbues them with added resonance. Vega is an excellent investigator who doesn’t bounce back right away from physical harm, and her relationship with Cap earns its complexity. I know I’ll be reading more of this series, and you should, too.” — Sarah Weinman (The New York Times Book Review)
• “Exhilarating. . .Vega’s PI partner, Max Caplan, lends support, but it is the no-nonsense Vega who carries the day. Readers will want to see a lot more of this kick-butt hero.” — Publishers Weekly

NOVELS

• Two Girls Down (2018) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• The Janes (2020) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• hideout (2022) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.