SHOT CALLER Release Day!

I'm happy to announce that NYPD Negotiators #2, SHOT CALLER, releases today!

In SHOT CALLER, NYPD Detective Gemma Capello and her fellow hostage negotiators are given a particularly difficult situation when a riot in one of the enhanced security units on Rikers Island ends with eight correction officers being held hostage. It’s a challenge—how do you negotiate with someone who already lives under the weight of a life sentence? What retribution within Gemma’s power to grant could possibly be worse than what already lies ahead of those inmates? It makes for an extremely tense situation where everyone from the Department of Corrections administration, NYPD commanders, the tactical team, and the mayor of New York City all have an opinion and an agenda:

In Jen J. Danna’s gripping suspense series, NYPD detective Gemma Capello is called to Rikers Island, where a prison riot threatens to become a bloodbath . . .

On Rikers Island, tensions always run high, especially in the Enhanced Supervision Housing unit. The ESH is home to Rikers’ most dangerous offenders, many of them members of rival street gangs. When Gemma Capello and her team get word of an uprising at the ESH, they know how much is at stake. Gemma also has her own unresolved feelings to deal with—this is the first case she and Detective Sean Logan have worked together since a siege at City Hall that ended with the hostage taker’s death.

Built to hinder escape, prisons are also especially difficult for a tactical team to invade. That’s a last resort for Gemma, but the longer the inmates remain in control, holding corrections officers hostage, the greater the risk. Gemma begins negotiating with Kill Switch, a young, aggressive member of the Filero Kings gang and the inmates’ spokesman. She can tell the stress level is escalating inside. That may give her team some advantages, but it soon leads to a brutal act of retribution—and threats of more to come.

Navigating assumptions on all sides, Gemma desperately tries to stop the body count from rising. But with disagreements and volatility increasing all around, the only certainty is that the next misstep may be a fatal one . . .

Publishers Weekly described SHOT CALLER as "A solid sequel to 2020’s EXIT STRATEGY. Danna’s convincing portrayal of the hostage negotiating process and life at Rikers keep the pages turning. Readers will look forward to Gemma’s next outing."

SHOT CALLER is available now from these fine retailers: Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Audible, Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million, Bookshop.org, Hudson Booksellers, IndieBound, Indigo, Target, and Walmart.

And a book release means it's party time!

Please join us tonight from 7 - 10pm EDT for a mass Kensington launch party. You'll find the event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/849446682324828. Many of the prizes being offered this evening are already up for preview in the discussion tab, including the grand prize from Kensington - one of each of the twelve books highlighted at tonight's party to one lucky winner! All giveaways are open for twenty-four hours, so if you can't make it tonight, you can still catch up tomorrow and get your name into the prize draws. Personally, I'll be giving away three copies of SHOT CALLER, an audio CD set of EXIT STRATEGY, and five ARCS of my upcoming FBI K-9s novel, UNDER PRESSURE.

Hope to see you there, and good luck in all the draws!