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Bone Song

John Meaney

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Lieutenant Donal Connor has been given the most bizarre of new cases. Four famous stage performers have died in recent months, three of them in state capitals within Transifica, the fourth in far Zurinam. And now the idolised diva Maria deLivnova is coming to Tristopolis. Donal's boss is determined that nothing like this is ever to happen in his city. Connor is to have anything he needs, as long as the diva lives. And so begins a dark investigation through a world where corpses give up their psychic energy in the massive necroflux generators which power the city, where gargoyles talk, where wraiths work in slavery, a world of the dead where corruption is alive. This is an extraordinary SF novel set in an alternate universe quite unlike any imagined in SF before; a universe where magic and the supernatural and the undead are given a scientific rationale. The novel's setting, Tristopolis, is the ultimate noir city; an immense baroque creation of haunted stone skyscrapers, black metal and city-wide catacombs. Its hero Donal Connor is immensely likeable and easy to identify with. Even once he's dead.

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Publisher
Hachette UK
ISBN-13
9781473214392
Topics
Murder investigationAlternate universe/urban noirDeath and the undead

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