Angel Hunt

Fitzroy Maclean Angel #3

by Mike Ripley

London in the late 1980s – the era of Thatcherism and Loadsamoney – is an exciting but sometimes dangerous place to live. Fitzroy Maclean Angel gets by partly through gigging as a jazz trumpet player, partly through taking illegal fares in his de-registered black taxi cab, and partly through … well, just being in the right place at the right time. And, as he often says himself, it’s better to be lucky than good.

In Angel Hunt, his third ecapade, Angel has an old university friend drop in on him – quite literally, as he plummets to his death through a skylight window! And that’s just the start of Angel’s troubles, as he gets his arm twisted by the police to help with their enquiries into a group of animal rights activists, who might just have something rather more deadly on their minds than a bit of foxhunt sabotage …

The third of Telos Publishing’s reissues of celebrated British author Mike Ripley’s series of comic crime novels featuring Fitzroy Maclean Angel.

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Humor

254 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2006

About the author

Mike Ripley is the author of the award-winning 'Angel' series of comedy thrillers which have twice won the CWA Last Laugh Award. It has been said that he 'paints a picture of London Dickens would recognise' and that 'he writes like the young Len Deighton, wierd and wonderful information and very, very funny'. Described as 'England's funniest crime writer' (The Times), he is also a respected critic of crime fiction, writing for the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times and the Birmingham Post among others.

Reviews

[Karolyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Different type of book for me but I enjoyed, started away from book 1 as per usual but managed ok, Angel is a bit of all trades and gets in some scrapes, will probably try to read more of the series