Anonymous Rex - Softcover

A hilarious and brilliant debut novel. A private-eye murder mystery with a difference set in Los Angeles and New York.

Eric Garcia’s hilarious and brilliant debut novel is as noir and hard-boiled as they come, a private-eye murder mystery set in Los Angeles and New York. It’s tough, wisecracking, fast-paced, violent and, occasionally, tender.

So what’s new? Only that the private-eye in question is a dinosaur, prone to overindulging his taste for basil rather than whisky! Like 5% of the world’s population, he has evolved over the ages to be as small as a human, and a master of disguise so that he can survive without the other 95% knowing about him. With his make-up and costume on, he looks like everyone else.

But this case could stretch the human/dino relationship to the limits!

Meet Vincent Rubio, PI. He's your typical down-on-his-luck hard-boiled private investigator in Los Angeles: he's out of work; his car's been repossessed; his partner died in mysterious circumstances; he's got a substance abuse problem (basil is his weakness); and his tail just won't stay put. Because Vincent is a velociraptor, one of the many dinosaurs who still roam the earth, wrapped up in convincing latex costumes that help them blend perfectly into human society. When Vincent is called in to investigate a two-bit case of arson at a hip dino nightclub, he discovers something sinister that lures him back to the scene of his partners death, and a dangerous nexus of dinosaur and human intermingling...

When classic tough detective noir fiction meets dinosaurs, you could only get something as amazingly funny, cleaver and just plain wild as'Anonymous Rex'

'"Audacious and imaginative debut ... You're going to be dazzled by Garcia's energy and chutzpah'"
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"A whimsical, surprisingly logical farce'"
KIRKUS REVIEWS

"The story's sly, seamlessly conceived dinosaur underworld contains all the elements of a cult classic"
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

"A fresh and antic comic thriller"
SEATTLE TIMES