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City of Fallen Angels: Atmospheric detective noir set in the suffocating LA heat wave
City of Fallen Angels: Atmospheric detective noir set in the suffocating LA heat wave | Paul Buchanan
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Summer, 1962. A scorching heat wave is suffocating L.A. PI John Keegan is offered a small fortune to find a beautiful woman from a set of photographs. He refuses; the job seems suspicious. But the next day the same woman, Eve, turns up, unbidden, on his doorstep. Eve fears for her safety. She is being watched. Before Keegan knows it, someone has been killed with Keegan’s own gun, and he gets sucked into a world of suspicion and betrayal where he’s never quite sure where the truth lies. Before long he’s the prime suspect in a murder he didn’t commit, and all the evidence seems to point in his direction. It’s almost like someone planned it that way.
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A hot summer mystery, saturated in Jameson, drifting on the tense waves of LA Palm-thick sizzle. A foray into the classic noir genre, an amble into a sympathetic journalist character who we can or cannot trust. It‘s a cliche of a femme fatale, or is it. It‘s a fever dream suspended in a familiar heat wave, punctuated with the perfect simile. It‘s overall a stunning bit of detective fiction that will envelop you in the world of Jimmy Keegan.