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Author: Mike Ripley

Genre: Crime, Mystery & Thriller
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780749080839
Pages: 398
Rights: World
Pub. Date: 28th July 2008

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Price: £19.99

Format: Hardback

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Private detective Fitzroy Maclean Angel is not your ordinary private detective.  The world he inhabits is strange and it is about to get stranger.  A new born baby means no more cases, no more fingerprinting and no more espionage and, with the arrival of his aging, hippy mother, he has swapped bloodstains for paint stains.  Domesticity, or the lack of it, has replaced his high-paced, crime-solving lifestyle.  That is, of course, apart from the AWOL screenwriter whose mother's funeral he must attend.

‘Fitzroy Maclean Angel, private eye, black-cab driver, drinker, jazz trumpeter, womanizer and louche layabout is one of British crime fiction’s great comic creations… never mind the plot, just laugh.’The Times

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'Angel, the series, is the age we all want to be: about 20. Angel, the man, despite the length of time since Just Another Angel, is the age we try to be, thirtyish, which is probably impressive time warping.
Angels Unawares can be read on its own, with no prior knowledge needed of the previous 14; I can only say that you've missed out, especially as every one is 'referred to' in some way in this one. But of course, I would say that, as I am rather biased and love every single one.
This one is very special. It might be the last. A regular character dies, as pairing Angel off in That Angel Look didn't work, 7 books ago.
After the funeral, which has a scene which will go down as one of the classics with a "stroll-on" role for a cat (not Springsteen for a change), Angel follows a gruesome trail of dead bodies to an even more gruesome family whose business is human trafficking. Aided, and occasionally abetted, by Huddersfield's 007, the Thompson Twins and Veronica, he also has to deal with his mother, which frankly is enough stress for anyone....no, there's also the new baby, so far officially un-named.'
The ending is the typical dramatic Angel showdown, with the lightest sprinkling of farce and with a fair pinch of tragedy. Still has me sniffing. Maybe he overdid the pepper.
This is a great read for old fans (like me) and new fans (you're late, where were you?) alike.'Fiona

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