Michael Logan

Novelist, Journalist and other things ending in -ist

Hell’s Detective 99 cents on Kindle

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Hell’s Detective, my latest novel, is now 99 cents on kindle in the US. To find out why you should give it a go, below are what people are saying about it:

“More fun than a barrel of flying monkeys. A fiendishly clever mash-up of noir and horror with a soupçon of hard-boiled humor. Set in a superbly realized corner of hell known as Lost Angeles, Logan has delivered a helluva great read.”
―Eric Van Lustbader, New York Times bestselling author of Any Minute Now

“I took Hell’s Detective down to the beach. It was a perfect splash of shade on a sunny day. Michael Logan has created a sinfully good noir mystery. Think Raymond Chandler meets Stephen King. Highly recommended!”
―Rebecca Cantrell, New York Times bestselling author

“[An] entertaining mystery…Logan has a knack for crating lines that will gratify noir fans.”
―Publishers Weekly

“Logan creates a world of the dead rich with details.”
―Kirkus Reviews

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Hell’s Detective: Lost Angeles sample to celebrate new website launch

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Evil MichaelAs you may have noticed from the proliferation of shiny around you, I have finally built a new website for all things bookish.

To mark this momentous occasion, which I believe may have momentarily stopped the globe from rotating (this may be why you felt several pounds lighter for 0.2 milliseconds at 3pm yesterday), I’ll be featuring lots of content in the coming weeks and months: largely short stories and novel extracts.

Kicking us off we have the first three chapters from my next novel, Hell’s Detective: Lost Angeles, a noir set in Hell. Hell’s Detective is a slight departure from previous works, in that it isn’t an out-and-out comedy. You will, however, find a light sprinkling of jokes therein.

As I don’t have a cover yet, this post is accompanied by an artist’s impression of what I might look like if I were a denizen of Hell. The artist should probably learn to draw better, but he really can’t be bothered.

I can’t tell you when this novel is going to be released. It’s still limping around the rain-drenched streets, tapping on the brightly lit windows of agents and publishers, smiling wanly and hoping they invite it in for champagne and caviar, rather than drawing the curtains and sending out the servants to beat it bloody with a dirty broom.

 

UPDATE, 0310/2015: Link to novel sample and blurb removed (it was only ever going to be up temporarily).

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