Lights, Camera, Angel - Softcover

Ripley, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845838882 ISBN 13: 9781845838881

Publisher: Telos Publishing Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Streetwise chancer Fitzroy Maclean Angel’s fashion-designer wife Amy gets him involved in her latest project - working on a big-budget movie being filmed at Pinewood. With his unerring knack of running into trouble, Angel discovers that the mishaps dogging the production are anything but accidental. And the devastatingly handsome star seems especially at risk, from two separate groups of fanatical fans, including his very own internet stalker. Angel is tasked with keeping the star out of harm’s way – and, having incurred the wrath of a vicious Chinese tong member, that isn’t going to be easy …

Telos Publishing is proud to present another in its range of reissues of Mike Ripley’s acclaimed series of comic crime novels – complete with a new, specially-written introduction by the author.

This edition also includes the bonus short story ‘Angel Eyes’, unseen in print since its sole previous publication in 1999.

‘Mayhem blends with gentle satire as the jokes and one-liners cascade among stalkers, internet villains and the obligatory femmes fatales. Farce of the highest calibre.’ - Guardian.

‘High comedy quotient, splendid scams … but [don't] fail to notice what a seriously good writer Ripley is.’ – The Literary Review.

About this title

About the Author

Mike Ripley has twice won the Crime Writer's Last Laugh Award for comedy crime and his Angel novels have been optioned by the BBC. He has written for television and radio and is the crime fiction critic for the Daily Telegraph, as well as co-editor of the Fresh Blood anthologies which promote new British crime writing talent. He lives with his wife, three children and two cats in East Anglia.

Review

"- Why the Angel books have not been snapped up for television now that Daly and Del Boy have both retired, is a mystery.' The Times - 'The talented Mr Ripley...' The Observer - 'High comedy quotient, splendid scams... but (don't) fail to notice what a seriously good writer Ripley is.' Literary Review - The outrageous rip-roarious Mr Ripley is an abiding delight...' - Colin Dexter

Edition details

• Publisher: Telos Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845838882
• ISBN 13: 9781845838881
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 337