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The Midnight Promise: A Detective's Story in Ten Cases

The Midnight Promise: A Detective's Story in Ten Cases

Lovitt, Zane

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 1609451333
ISBN13: 9781609451332
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: Jun 25 2013
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

One PI. Ten crimes. Stylistically reminiscent of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill. An exciting and original debut (The Hoopla Literary Society).

A literary detective story ingeniously told in ten cases. John Dorn is a classic gumshoe. His woman has left him, he lives in his office, and he drinks too much. His one friend, a lawyer named Demetri, hands Dorn an infinite supply of hopeless cases and lost causes, to which Dorn, ever the champion of the underdog and the oppressed, is drawn to as a sledgehammer is to a kneecap. A superlative work of hardboiled literary detective fiction, The Midnight Promise wonderfully evokes the underbelly of contemporary Melbourne, its battlers, its hard men, its victims, and its ill-fated heroes.

[A] powerful hard-boiled debut . . . The cases get progressively more disturbing, both in terms of their subject matter, which include gruesome torture, and their impact on Dorn, a classic world-weary narrator.--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Lovitt has a neat way with a yarn. . . . And just when you think he is going to stay close to a kind of downbeat realism, there is a slide into something a little thrillerish and action-packed.--The Sydney Morning Herald

[An] artful, Down Under nod to the hard-boiled private eyes of Chandler and Hammett.--The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Excellent International Thrillers

Lovitt is sure-handed in sketching characters, and he laces Dorn's cases with sardonic humor and prodigious bits of human frailty. . . . Fans of international crime fiction will enjoy Dorn and his milieu.--Booklist

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