So Dark the Night

by Cliff Burns

Welcome to After Hours Investigations, open from dusk 'til dawn... Cassandra Zinnea and Evgeny Nightstalk have taken on their fair share of strange cases in their time--what do you expect when your clientele is drawn from the sort of people who only come out at night? But now they find themselves confronting a ruthless and fiendish foe, an opponent not averse to employing the blackest arts to further their nefarious aims. Danger lurks everywhere and the darkness can hide a multitude of sins...not to mention all manner of ambulatory corpses, forbidden rituals and ravening creatures plucked from the formless ether. So Dark the Night is, at once, a supernatural thriller and a loving homage to film noir and the gritty, hard-boiled poetry found in the very best crime fiction. Funny, sexy and terrifying, So Dark the Night is an entertaining hybrid, a dizzying mix of genres, a spook show that delivers everything it promises.

330 pages, Paperback

First published April 8, 2010

Reviews

[Mel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Picked this up off the sci-fi shelves in the library because the cover looked cool. Such a great story & wonderful characters. Absolutely loved it!

[Simon Gosden · Rating 4 out of 5]

A hard-boiled raunchy occult thriller, that's great fun from start to finish. Featuring the unlikely private eyes Cassandra Zinnea and Evgeny Nightstalker this is a romp of a book as the deadly duo face a ruthless and fiendish foe.