Synopsis
The phone rings. It's your daughter. She's been dead for four months.
Ian Hunt is the police dispatcher for the small town of Bulls Mouth, East Texas. Just as his shift is ending he gets a call from his fourteen-year-old daughter, Maggie.
Maggie, who has just been declared dead, having been snatched from her bedroom seven years ago. Her call ends in...
Details
25 September 2025432 pages
9781035087617Imprint: Pan
Reviews
The Dispatcher, which reads at a cracking pace, is a one-sitting, fist-in-mouth readGuardian
Reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's tales of vengeance, The Dispatcher is an impressively accomplished performance that never strains for mythic power but nevertheless acquires itSunday Times
Jahn is the fastest rising star in the ever-competitive crime fiction world . . . He is more a poet than a disciple of the hard-boiled, giving us one brutally swift, ultra-smart line after another. The characters live and breathe in all their wickedness, helplessness or determination. And then there are the plots . . . talk about page-turning.Daily Mirror
Over the past few years a new generation of crime writers has come perilously close to recreating the jaded mindset of the classic noir thrillers, but no one has succeeded quite like Jahn . . . The author leads the new noir pack with a series of palm-sweating situations that pay homage to the classics of the genre while feeling entirely fresh - in a mean, lean, unclean wayFinancial Times
