Hell's Detective: A Mystery - Hardcover

Praise for Hell's Detective "More fun than a barrel of flying monkeys. A fiendishly clever mash-up of noir and horror with a soup on of hard-boiled humor. Set in a superbly realized corner of hell known as Lost Angeles, Logan has delivered a helluva great read." --Eric Van Lustbader, New York Times bestselling author of Any Minute Now "I took Hell's Detective down to the beach. It was a perfect splash of shade on a sunny day. Michael Logan has created a sinfully good noir mystery. Think Raymond Chandler meets Stephen King. Highly recommended!" --Rebecca Cantrell, New York Times bestselling author "[An] entertaining mystery...Logan has a knack for crating lines that will gratify noir fans." --Publishers Weekly "Logan creates a world of the dead rich with details." --Kirkus Reviews "Logan's vision of hell is violent, gritty, and filled with evil. Incorporated into an action-packed mystery, this extreme universe should delight fans of Simon R. Green or Jim Butcher's 'Dresden Files.'" --Library Journal "Logan takes readers on a dark-comedy tour of a Hell beyond our wildest dreams with this unpredictable detective novel." --Booklist "This is a most entertaining novel with a definitely unique plot...It's an unusual and imaginative story with some creative viewpoints about guilt, punishment, and redemption, and some mythological references thrown in for good measure...Hell's Detective is an enjoyable story with a surprisingly happy ending for a narrative set in hell. Kudos to author Logan for an inventive approach to an age-old subject." --New York Journal of Books "Intriguing, action-packed." --Mystery Scene Magazine "This is a fun read and is well written and put together well. A mystery that is a little naughty on the side...Regardless if you are a die-hard horror fan or a fantasy fan you will love this book...If you're looking for a new kind of mystery, check out award-winning author Michael Logan." --Night Owl Reviews "A helluva romp...an action-packed ripsnorter pounded out in big pulpy strokes that makes me hope the author visits our genre again." --The Thrilling Detective

Kat Murphy is a private detective tortured by demons. Real ones. She is serving a death sentence in Lost Angeles, the dark and depraved city in Hell where a beast known as a Torment forces her to relive, night after night, the moment she killed her lover and put a bullet in her own skull. Kat longs to make amends for her sins. So when the city's Chief Administrator hires her to retrieve a stolen box with a mysterious power, offering to call off her Torment in return, she gets the chance to do just that. But if Kat has learned one thing, it's that every case has a wrinkle. As she trawls drug dens, casinos, and fighting pits in search of the thief, she discovers that both box and city contain secrets darker than she could ever have imagined. And with time running out, Kat must choose between her own desire for peace and the fate of the world above in Hell's Detective, the electrifying new mystery from award-winning author Michael Logan.