Breaking the Dark

A Jessica Jones Marvel Crime Novel

Lisa Jewell

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CENTRAL AVENUE PUB
08 July 2025

Crime & Mystery; Adventure; Marvel Universe

Prepare to be hooked- No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell launches the Marvel Crime program with an original story of Jessica Jones.

Meet Jessica Jones- a private investigator and retired super hero based out of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, who goes from job to job as a hard living, rough talking, loner.

And then a wealthy Upper East Side woman pays her a visit. Amber Randall is concerned about her twin sixteen-year-olds, Lark and Fox, who have acted and looked very different since they returned from spending the summer with their British father in the UK. She tells Jessica that her children have unnaturally perfect skin for teenagers and have lost all the tics and habits that made them who they were. They are not Lark and Fox, she tells Jessica. Something has happened to them.

To find out more, Jessica travels to Essex to talk to their father and once there meets Belle who is living a curiously isolated existence in a run-down farmhouse with her guardian Debra. Jessica knows that Lark and Fox had spent the summer with Belle-but can this unworldly teenager really be responsible for Lark and Fox's new personas?

Jessica soon discovers that, behind Belle and Debra, evil geniuses are playing a dangerous game with technology in order to make the world a \""better place\"", not caring who gets hurt, maimed or even killed in the process. Can Jessica stop them from wreaking destruction on a whole generation of young people?

Nothing is certain in Lisa Jewell's gripping and most imaginative novel yet.

Breaking the Dark, the first book in the brand-new Marvel Crime series, introduces fans to a grittier, street-level side of the Marvel Universe, and will continue with original novels featuring fan-favorite characters like Luke Cage, written by S.A. Cosby, and Daredevil, written by Alex Segura.

'Tricksy, endlessly interesting and pure entertainment, don't miss this one.' Gillian McAllister 'Fresh, lively, insightful-and the action scenes hit like a chop. A really cracking story.' AJ Finn 'Classic Lisa Jewell with an amazing twist!' Jenny Colgan 'Reveals the depth and complexity of one of the most fascinating and indomitable characters in the Marvel canon.' S. A. Cosby

By: Lisa Jewell
Imprint: CENTRAL AVENUE PUB
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 317g
ISBN: 9781804947906
ISBN 10: 1804947903
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 08 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Lisa Jewell is the No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of twenty-two novels, including The Family Upstairs, Then She Was Gone and her latest novel, None of This is True. Her novels have sold over 10 million copies in the UK and internationally, and her work has been translated into over thirty languages. She lives in London with her husband, two daughters, an amazing Romanian rescue dog called Daisy, and Ivy the mad orange kitten.

Reviews for Breaking the Dark: A Jessica Jones Marvel Crime Novel

Seamlessly integrates superhero lore with the gritty realism of a crime thriller. * Daily Mirror * Clever concept, characters and and compelling prose will keep you hooked. * Woman & Home * A gripping read. * Heat Magazine * Absolutely perfect. * Booklist * Twisty, authentic, gripping. * Platinum Magazine Book Club *