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Also by Ian Tregillis:

Something More Than Night, December 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Necessary Evil, May 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Coldest War, July 2012
Hardcover / e-Book

SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT
By: Ian Tregillis

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.