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Something More Than Night

✍ Scribed by Tregillis, Ian


Publisher
Tor Books
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis


A Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler-inspired murder mystery set in Thomas AquinasοΏ½s vision of Heaven. A noir detective story of 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.

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 novelοΏ½the mysterious dame who needs his help, getting grilled by the bulls, finding a stiff, getting slipped a mickey.

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