City of Fallen Angels

by Paul Buchanan

Overview

Summer, 1962. A scorching heat wave is suffocating L.A. PI John Keegan is offered a small fortune to find a beautiful woman from a set of photographs. He refuses; the job seems suspicious.

But the next day the same woman, Eve, turns up, unbidden, on his doorstep. Eve fears for her safety. She is being watched. Before Keegan knows it, someone has been killed with Keegan’s own gun, and he gets sucked into a world of suspicion and betrayal where he’s never quite sure where the truth lies. Before long he’s the prime suspect in a murder he didn’t commit, and all the evidence seems to point in his direction.

It’s almost like someone planned it that way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789559811
Publisher:	Legend Press US
Publication date:	03/01/2021
Series:	PI John Keegan
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	996,602
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Paul Buchanan earned a Master of Professional Writing degree from the University of Southern California and an MFA in fiction writing from Chapman University. He teaches and writes in the Los Angeles area.

Editorial Reviews

★ 01/25/2021

Set in 1962 Los Angeles, Buchanan’s terrific debut and series launch introduces Jim Keegan, a journalist turned private investigator. Keegan is in a funk. His mother has just died, and the death of Marilyn Monroe is very much in the news. He won’t accept a secretive new client offering a suspiciously fat fee for finding a young woman somewhere in L.A. with only a set of photographs to go on. The next day, Keegan spots the woman in the property neighboring his mother’s Hollywood home: she’s Eve Ormsby-Cutler, the niece of actor Nigel Ormsby, who owns the house. It turns out Eve also wants to hire Keegan—to protect her from some kind of stalker—but he helps her for free, and gives her his pistol for protection. When she kills Nigel when he arrives home unexpectedly, Keegan helps Eve cover up her involvement, and the police quickly, and reasonably, point the finger at the PI. Noir fans will recognize the femme fatale trope and the outlines of the plot (think Double Indemnity), but Buchanan has fully reimagined a classic plot. Readers will be eager for the sequel. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

"[A] terrific debut and series launch…readers will be eager for the sequel.”—Publishers Weekly Online

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