{"product_id":"9781845838805","title":"The Immortalists","description":"Is There Life After Death?\u003cp\u003eEx-cop, Mordent, is an irascible, anachronistic PI with a noir sensibility and a bubblewrap fetish. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHired to investigate a missing person case he believes the job to be an easy pay-check, but when the kid turns up dead and appears to have aged beyond death, Mordent finds the mystery is only just beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a second body is found similarly aged, Mordent is pulled into rival gang leaders' quests for immortality, a race where the objective is not to finish. And it becomes personal when Marina, a psychic, disappears after tipping off the police about the second body. Mordent had unfinished business with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Immortalists is the first in a series of exciting crime novels putting a neo-noir twist on the genre conventions of bums and dames, corruption and perversion, and cops and informers; all played out on rain-soaked streets amid a shadow-filled city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An excellent writer and stylist, reminding me of Raymond Chandler, Malcolm Pryce and Jasper Fforde. Suitably creepy and sometimes laugh out loud funny.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmlyn Rees, author of 'That Summer He Died'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Andrew Hook's fiction is always recognisable, but never predictable. He has that rare, lovely ability: to mess with your expectations while entertaining you at the same time.' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMat Coward, Dagger and Edgar shortlisted crime writer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Telos Publishing, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050622370032,"sku":"9781845838805","price":15.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781845838805_p0.jpg?v=1763746476","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781845838805","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}