Person Unknown

About the Book

Advance Praise for Person Unknown
“In amnesia thrillers, memory-blanked narrators usually wake up in seedy urban hotel rooms. Not in Bruce Kimmel’s world. His empty-minded hero finds himself in the garage of an unfamiliar family home in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. Even more impressive, while keeping the action mainly in this nominally peaceful vicinity, the author is skillful enough to rev up a full amount of propulsive suspense with sinister SUVs, suspiciously kind strangers, unruly kids and fast-food waitresses, sympathetic and snarky. It’s a bravura example of a unique kind of mystery, neighborhood noir.”
—Dick Lochte, author of The Neon Smile
“With Person Unknown Bruce Kimmel has written a stand-alone that’s a mystery in more ways than one — it’s not only a whodunnit but a what-the hell’s-been-done-in-the-first-place? Written in Kimmel’s clean, no frills, style, Person Unknown pulled me in from the opening pages as
his protagonist struggles to answer these questions. The reader is fully immersed in the protagonist’s point-of-view. He’s a man trying to put a puzzle together without the pieces. Who is he? Who can he trust? The only way to find out is to read it, which I highly recommend you do.”
—Bill Fitzhugh, award-winning author of the cult favorite Pest Control etc.
“What would you do if you suddenly woke up and you didn’t know who you were, where you were, or what you were doing there? That is the dilemma facing Person Unknown in this fast-moving chess-game of a mystery by Bruce Kimmel – a one-man band of talent. In this wonderfully told story, Person Unknown must be his own detective, but what do you detect if you can’t remember anything? As the great detective, Mr. Holmes, might observe – it’s a two-pipe problem. So, what are you waiting for? Light up!”
—David Del Valle, noted Hollywood historian and author

About the Author

This is Bruce Kimmel’s twenty-eighth book. Fortunately, he does not suffer from amnesia. He has had a long career—as an actor, director, writer, award-winning composer/lyricist, and as a prolific author of both fiction and memoirs. He has written one book, sometimes more, every year since 2001. He still directs for the theater, and his 2023 award-winning web series, SAMI, is still streaming on Amazon Prime. As a legendary Grammy-nominated record producer, he’s produced over 200 recordings since 1993. His record label, Kritzerland, has released over 400 CDs—soundtrack and show reissues, jazz and classical reissues, and new recordings—in the past sixteen years. He lives in the San Fernando Valley and has the longest running daily blog in the history of the internet, having never missed a single day of blogging since November 2001.