{"product_id":"the-midnight-promise","title":"The Midnight Promise: A Detective's Story in Ten Cases","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne PI. Ten crimes. \"Stylistically reminiscent of Quentin Tarantino's \u003ci\u003ePulp Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eKill Bill\u003c\/i\u003e. An exciting and original debut\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Hoopla Literary Society\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA literary detective story ingeniously told in ten cases. John Dorn is a classic gumshoe. His woman has left him, he lives in his office, and he drinks too much. His one friend, a lawyer named Demetri, hands Dorn an infinite supply of hopeless cases and lost causes, to which Dorn, ever the champion of the underdog and the oppressed, is drawn to \"as a sledgehammer is to a kneecap.\" A superlative work of hardboiled literary detective fiction, The Midnight Promise wonderfully evokes the underbelly of contemporary Melbourne, its battlers, its hard men, its victims, and its ill-fated heroes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] powerful hard-boiled debut . . . The cases get progressively more disturbing, both in terms of their subject matter, which include gruesome torture, and their impact on Dorn, a classic world-weary narrator.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Lovitt has a neat way with a yarn. . . . And just when you think he is going to stay close to a kind of downbeat realism, there is a slide into something a little thrillerish and action-packed.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[An] artful, Down Under nod to the hard-boiled private eyes of Chandler and Hammett.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e, \"10 Excellent International Thrillers\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Lovitt is sure-handed in sketching characters, and he laces Dorn's cases with sardonic humor and prodigious bits of human frailty. . . . Fans of international crime fiction will enjoy Dorn and his milieu.\"--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Europa Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44459425562761,"sku":"9781609451332","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0376\/3057\/4729\/files\/4b441febd67fbe8a22dfefef1ff40b2c9f6cfe85.jpg?v=1757070963","url":"https:\/\/thebookmarkpr.com\/products\/the-midnight-promise","provider":"The Bookmark Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}