DIRTY METAL Book Launch & 90s Party

Love the 90s? Love crime? How about pizza? Join us to celebrate the publication of DIRTY METAL, a debut novel by Allison LaMothe.

🎟 This event is FREE and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase the night of the event!

📕 Buy DIRTY METAL and get your copy signed by the author

🎛️ Music! Swag! 90s vibes!

🏆 Wear your best 90s ensemble—best outfit wins a prize!

🍕Oh yeah pizza!

About the Book

New York City, 1992—Meet Parker Snow, the most tenacious reporter for a tabloid paper that thrives on juicy gossip over hard-hitting news, the New York Street. She also has a big black mark on her record from her last street crime story—and a habit of taking a few too many pills to erase the memory.

Since the fall of the USSR, a new crop of Russian criminals have been arriving in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. It's now Parker's job to cover them. But her old beat keeps calling to her, especially when she learns of a murdered woman whose case the cops want to ignore.

Trying to run down two stories at once—a simmering mafia turf war, and a homicide that leads to two more with no clear link between them—Parker must also fight the pull of her pills and the arrogant men who get in her way at every turn. Despite it all, she's determined to find truth and redemption for herself, the victims, and a city in chaos—if her demons don't get to her first.

Praise for Dirty Metal

"LaMothe is a startling and original talent and her new book may just be the year’s big breakout debut."

—CrimeReads (most anticipated 2026)

“LaMothe’s language is electric, crackling with energy. . . A bold debut befitting its bold heroine.”
—Kirkus (starred review)

“A rough and tumble debut that crackles with voice and style, Allison LaMothe’s Dirty Metal will ring in your head long after you’ve turned the last page. Boasting all the ingredients of a must-read thriller—a plucky and complicated protagonist, mesmerizing setting, and gripping mystery—Dirty Metal is a poised and poignant story that feels more like a tenth novel than a first.” —Alex Segura, bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity and Alter Ego

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