“This persuasive and dizzying novel grabs you and doesn’t let go. It is sexy, disturbing and relentless. What it says about human nature will keep you up at night. It’s also constantly entertaining and unnervingly passionate. Scar Tissue is amazing and weird in all the best ways.”
“Scar Tissue has all that we’ve come to expect from Jeff Hess’s crime fiction– sweat-soaked Florida settings, uncompromising authenticity, and wild plots with hairpin turns– but adds yet another layer of ground-in grit. Hess’s new protagonists, Dylan and Abby, are damaged goods– selfish, yet sympathetic, slick cons, but also lost souls– and, most importantly, complicated women who are written and treated by Hess as such. In his latest, Hess spills just as much blood as in his previous novels, but it’s in the scars still healing where the real story lies.”
– Steph Post, author of Miraculum, Lightwood, Walk in the Fire, and Holding Smoke
“Tired of the same old noir stories where nothing is new but a bell here, or a whistle there? Look no further than Scar Tissue for something different and alive…and dead. This novel’s bells chime, whistles shriek, and the story puts you on a path you’ve not strode before. Be sure to stick to the path because the surrounding edges are XACTO knife sharp and cut bone-deep. Hess’ visuals are technicolor clear, and will chill you to the marrow. This viscous noir is charged with intense sex scenes, psychological mind manipulation, and will have you ingest page after blood soaked page. By the final paragraph I forced air into my lungs, then checked to make sure I… wasn’t…bleeding…out!”
– Jonathan Brown, author of Moose’s Law, The Big Crescendo, and Don’t Shoot The Drummer
“This gritty novel is the redheaded stepchild of Martyrs mated with Thelma and Louise—layers of darkness, vengeance, and chaos wrapped tightly together into a ball of sinuous fury.”
