Angel Underground - Softcover

Ripley, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845838890 ISBN 13: 9781845838898

Publisher: Telos Publishing Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Manipulated by his mother into helping out with a chaotic archaelogical dig in rural Suffolk, Angel is surprised when his fashion-designer wife Amy insists on accompanying him. In charge of the dig is an elderly eccentric apparently convinced that he will find the remains of Queen Boudica’s royal mint on his own property. However, there have been sinister accidents on site and several diggers have been attacked – and, with his usual knack for finding trouble, Angel gets drawn into investigating a mystery far more recent than the Iron Age …

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.

‘Ripley is everything I hate in other writers. His plotting, characterisation, dialogue and scene setting are superb, and he is laugh-aloud funny. I am insanely jealous.’ - R D Wingfield.

About this title

About the Author

Mike Ripley has twice won the Crime Writers' Last Laugh Award for comedy crime. He is the crime fiction critic for the Birmingham Post and co-editor of the Fresh Blood anthologies which promote new British crime writing talent.

Review

"- 'High comedy quotient, splendid scams... but [don't] fail to notice what a seriously good writer Ripley is.' - Literary Review - 'Exuberant, laugh-aloud fun and cleverness... but there is in addition, an edge and an anger.' - Marcel Berlins, The Times - 'I never read Ripley on trains, planes or buses. He makes me laugh and it annoys the other passengers.' - Minette Walters

Edition details

• Publisher: Telos Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845838890
• ISBN 13: 9781845838898
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324