Depth - Softcover

Rosen, Lev

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783298634 ISBN 13: 9781783298631

Publisher: Titan Books, 2015

Synopsis

When the polar ice caps melted, America's East Coast became an underwater graveyard—except for New York City, where a million people make their home amongst the skyscrapers poking through the ocean waves. A million people who like to live by their own rules—including Simone Pierce, one of the best private investigators in the city.

It starts out as a routine surveillance job: cheating husband, attractive blonde. But when the husband turns up with a bullet in him, the cops like Simone for the murder. If she can find the blonde, she'll clear her name, but instead she stumbles onto a strange network of power brokers and art collectors, all looking for a treasure that can't possibly exist. As she struggles to find the murderer, Simone is only sure of one thing: she can't trust anybody, not even herself, because the city she grew up in might have more secrets than even she knows.

About this title

About the Author

Lev AC Rosen is the author of the critically acclaimed All Men of Genius. His middle grade novel, Woundabout, will be published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in Summer 2015. He received his BA from Oberlin College and his MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Lev is originally from lower Manhattan, and now lives in even lower Manhattan, right at the edge of the water, with his husband and a very small cat. You can find him online at LevACRosen.com.

Review

"Rosen doesn't subvert the genre; he revels in it. Rather than diluting noir's shadowy textural and moral murk, his use of science fiction heightens the tension—not to mention the stakes . . . Depth is starkly glamorous, telegraphed in clipped prose and sharp dialogue that's as taut as a garrote." (NPR)

"Heinlein meets Hammett in this whip-smart whodunnit set amid the billowing fog and rising waters of a future New York." (Chuck Greaves, award-winning author of Hush Money)

"I have long admired Lev Rosen's strange, genre-bending work—his riff on the detective story is elegant, surprising, and, yes, deep." (Dan Chaon, National Book Award finalist, author of Await Your Reply)

"Simone is a female detective in the Kinsey Millhone and V.I. Warshawski mold: tough, tenacious, and pragmatic." (Library Journal)

"Sci-fi meets detective fiction, and politics provides the glue. Lev AC Rosen has crafted an easy, fast-read, vacation-ready thriller." (The Strand)

"Rosen has written an intrigue-laden detective story that takes advantage of the setting's mystique... Secrets flow like the tide, everybody is hiding something, and trust can get you killed." (Science Fiction Book Club)

"An enthralling murder mystery set in an intriguing world... Dive in." (The London Sun)

"Everything about this book is just effortlessly cool... Depth is one of the most original crime novels I've read in a long time." (Bookshelf Butterfly)

"Rosen drew me in like a moth to a flame... Depth is a fresh take on dystopian fantasy. Rosen is a definite author to watch and love." (Nihil Sed Tempus)

"Holy cow! What a delightful mashup of ‘40s detective noir and science fiction.” (Betty J. Roiger The Journal (New Ulm, MN))

Edition details

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783298634
• ISBN 13: 9781783298631
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290