WILL NICHOLS
BRUNNER IN THE BLACK
LENYA FISCHER is THE NARWHAL,
globe-trotting pirate private eye. Accept nothing less than the first name in noir, hardboiled, spy, and global crime fiction.
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Brunner in the Black will be available for purchase on January 9, 2026
"A vast and immersive international crime thriller...
Lenya is a brilliant protagonist... Nichols manages to pack the last 50 years of European conflict and interconnection into her personal history...
As the story unfolds, the vision of our tenuous global economy and democratic order that emerges is more terrifying than anything hidden in a Liechtenstein bank. Readers will undoubtedly look forward to Lenya's next case."
"Nichols’s geopolitical thriller moves at breakneck speed, as nimble and relentless as protagonist Lenya Fischer, a tenacious Stasi agent turned private investigator...
Nichols deftly explores the relationship between religion and political power, the erosion of democratic institutions, and the rise of transnational networks that operate above the law."
-BookLife by Publishers Weekly
"A gritty, globe-spanning thriller with brains, bite, and a heroine whose resolve to expose the truth threatens the world's most powerful institutions...
Lenya's not your typical heroine... She's a woman who commands respect in a field built for men. She's not chasing redemption, she enforces her own kind of justice, and she's terrifyingly good at it. I loved how Nichols doesn't let age soften her character. Loyal, brave, relentless, and dangerously smart, she navigates the chaos with the agility of someone half her age..."
-Independent Book Review