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Tor Books
December 2013
On Sale: December 3, 2013
Featuring: Dashiell Hammett; Raymond Chandler
304 pages ISBN: 0765334321 EAN: 9780765334329 Kindle: B00DA6XMOC Hardcover / e-Book
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Fantasy Urban | Mystery
Ian Tregillis's Something More Than Night is a Dashiell
Hammett and Raymond Chandler inspired murder mystery set in
Thomas Aquinas's vision of Heaven. It's a noir detective
story starring fallen angels, the heavenly choir, nightclub
stigmatics, a priest with a dirty secret, a femme fatale,
and the Voice of God. Somebody has murdered the angel Gabriel. Worse, the Jericho
Trumpet has gone missing, putting Heaven on the brink of a
truly cosmic crisis. But the twisty plot that unfolds from
the murder investigation leads to something much bigger: a
con job one billion years in the making. Because this is no mere murder. A small band of angels has
decided to break out of heaven, but they need a human patsy
to make their plan work. Much of the story is told from the point of view of Bayliss,
a cynical fallen angel who has modeled himself on Philip
Marlowe. The yarn he spins follows the progression of a
Marlowe novel-the mysterious dame who needs his help,
getting grilled by the bulls, finding a stiff, getting
slipped a mickey. Angels and gunsels, dames with eyes like fire, and a grand
maguffin, Something More Than Night is a murder mystery for
the cosmos.
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