{"product_id":"9781466810204","title":"Something More Than Night","description":"\u003cp\u003eIan Tregillis's \u003ci\u003eSomething More Than Night\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomebody 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause this is no mere murder. A small band of angels has decided to break out of heaven, but they need a human patsy to make their plan work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuch 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.\u003cbr\u003eAngels and gunsels, dames with eyes like fire, and a grand maguffin, \u003ci\u003eSomething More Than Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a murder mystery for the cosmos. \u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003eBest Fiction Book of 2013\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Doherty Associates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47170919104752,"sku":"9781466810204","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466810204_p0.jpg?v=1769890866","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466810204","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}