Something More Than Night

Something More Than Night is a Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler-inspired murder mystery set in Thomas Aquinass vision of Heaven. Its 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 Tregilliss Something More Than Night is a murder mystery for the cosmos.