January's Paradigm

About January’s Paradigm

Robert Porter is enjoying the fruits of success: a best-selling detective novel featuring a hard-nosed detective circa 1947 named Joe January, and a lucrative contract for the sequel. But his world comes crashing down around him when he witnesses his wife’s infidelity.

As Porter sinks into a morass of grief over her abandonment, only one person can help him regain his self-esteem and dignity. One man alone can help Porter set things right ... and that person’s name is Joe January. But he doesn’t even exist ... or does he?

January’s Paradigm is the first book in the January trilogy, although I consider it a standalone novel. References to its successors, One Hot January and January’s Thaw, abound, but the two can be read without having read the former. Still, I hope you’ll consider reading all three to get a firm grasp on the workings of Joe January’s mind.

An excerpt of January’s Paradigm can be found on my blog.

JCG

Why the critics are reading January’s Paradigm:

“J. Conrad Guest has taken the heartbreak of sexual betrayal and turned it into a romance-fantasy … Readers will not be able to put it down.”

—Current Entertainment Monthly, Ann Arbor, Michigan

“Prompted by his detective’s instincts and the photograph of a woman who seems strangely familiar, January begins his search for the reasons behind his existence. His quest will take him down numerous and occasionally violent paths: there’s a beast lurking at the periphery of this, Robert Porter’s alternate reality.”

—Ellen Tanner Marsh, New York Times best-selling author

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