Something More Than Night

Ian Tregillis

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English

Tor U.K.
30 December 2014

Horror & ghost stories; Fantasy; Crime ; Detective Horror

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. 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, Ian Tregillis's Something More Than Night is a murder mystery for the cosmos.

By: Ian Tregillis
Imprint: Tor U.K.
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780765375780
ISBN 10: 0765375788
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 30 December 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

IAN TREGILLIS is the author of a tryptich of alternate history series, Bitter Seeds, The Coldest War and Necessary Evil. He lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he works as a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In addition, he is a member of the George R. R. Martin Wild Cards writing collective.

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Superlatives seem superfluous. Instead...wow. Just-wow. Kirkus Reviews Superlatives seem superfluous. Instead...wow. Just-wow. --Kirkus Reviews Superlatives seem superfluous. Instead...wow. Just-wow. Kirkus Reviews The C oldest War is like a cross between the devious, character-driven spy fiction of early John le Carre and the mad science fantasy of the X-Men...eloquent and utterly compelling. -- Kirkus Reviews An excellent journey into an alternate Britain and should please fans of Harry Turtledove and Naomi Novik. -- Library Journal on The Coldest War A white-knuckle plot, beautiful descriptions, and complex characters--an unstoppable Vickers of a novel. --Cory Doctorow on Bitter Seeds Bitter Seeds may rival Naomi Novik's Tales of Temeraire as a sustained historical fantasy. -- Booklist