Family of Angels - Softcover

Mike Ripley

3.75

48 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845830695 ISBN 13: 9781845830694

Publisher: TELOS, 2012

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Most families have a skeleton in the cupboard. Fitzroy MacLean Angel has a mortuary...

It requires all of Angel's streetwise talents to find a missing brother, uncover an outrageous Common Market drugs deal, survive sex on the Eurostar deep in the Channel Tunnel and solve the problem of just where do you hide a field of cannabis?

And if keeping his estranged parents apart isn't hard enough, Angel also has to contend with a family of East End gangsters involved in the curious case of missing diesel fuel and stolen beer barrels.

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About the Author:

Mike Ripley is an archaeologist as well as an award-winning crime writer, twice winner of the Crime Writers' Last Laugh Award for comedy crime. He is also co-editor of the Fresh Blood anthologies which promote new British crime writing talent. Apart from completing eleven Angel novels, he has written for radio and television, lectured on crime writing and reviewed for over twelve years, which has involved reading around 2,000 crime novels. He is currently the crime critic for The Birmingham Post.

Review:

"- 'The outrageous, riproaring Mr Ripley is an abiding delight' - Colin Dexter - 'Farce of the highest calibre.' - Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian - '... like fine malt whisky, Angel is high proof and totally addictive' - Jim Driver, Time Out - 'Three cheers for an exemplary hero who has never made an excuse and left. Ripley on rich and ribald form.' - Philip Oakes, Literary Review

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