num_pages: 304
description: 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 but 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 Something More Than Night is a murder mystery for the cosmos.
language: English
title: Something More Than Night
publisher: Tor Books