# Something More Than Night - Paperback

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by **Ian Tregillis** (Author)

_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.

### Author Biography

IAN TREGILLIS is the author of a triptych 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.

**Number of Pages:** 304

**Dimensions:** 1 x 9 x 6 IN

**Publication Date:** December 30, 2014

**Award:** Spectrum Awards (2014)

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