Angel Hunt [Paperback]

Mike Ripley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 15, 2006 | Series: Angel

London in the late 1980s - the era of Thatcherism and Loadsamoney - is an exciting but sometimes dangerous place to live. Fitzroy Maclean Angel gets by partly through gigging as a jazz trumpet player, partly through taking illegal fares in his de-registered black taxi cab, and partly through ... well, just being in the right place at the right time. And, as he often says himself, it's better to be lucky than good. In Angel Hunt, his third ecapade, Angel has an old university friend drop in on him - quite literally, as he plummets to his death through a skylight window! And that's just the start of Angel's troubles, as he gets his arm twisted by the police to help with their enquiries into a group of animal rights activists, who might just have something rather more deadly on their minds than a bit of foxhunt sabotage ... Back in print for the first time in a decade are the first three titles in Mike Ripley's acclaimed 'Angel' series of comic crime novels. Each title is handsomely packaged and contains an specially-written introduction by the author.

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About the Author

Mike Ripley is the author of 16 novels, including the Angel series which have twice won the Crime Writers' Last Laugh Award for comedy. He was the co-editor of the legendary Fresh Blood anthologies, a scriptwriter for BBC TVs Lovejoy and served as the Daily Telegraph's crime fiction critic for ten years. He currently writes a monthly crime column for the Birmingham Post.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Telos Publishing; 1 edition (September 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 184583108X
• ISBN-13: 978-1845831080
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,086,470 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars An engaging rascal, August 9, 2005

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Beverley Strong (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Angel Hunt (Hardcover)

Like Jonathan Gashs' hero, Lovejoy, Angel is an amusing (nearly) rascal, just barely skirting the law while becoming involved with dangerous escapades and brushes with the police. Angel, aka Fitzroy Maclean Angel, university graduate, cheerful boozer and avid womaniser, is flat sitting for his landlord when the body of an old university friend falls through the bathroom skylight and into the bathtub with a large section of window glass fatally imbedded in his neck. The police deduce that he was trying to escape from a group of violent animal activists with whom he had previously been involved. Angel is persuaded by the police to join the group as an unofficial undercover agent to discover the source of their weapons and to be able to warn the police about the extent of their escalating use of explosives.The scene is set in the countryside with a radical vicar, the hunting set, a vodka swilling teenager and exciting chases in Angels' old London taxicab. He's such a likeable villain that he keeps you smiling all through the book with his amusing dialogue and general good humour.

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, Fun, British "sort of" Mystery, December 22, 2007

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Terry Weiss "Mystery Lover" (Corvallis, OR U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Angel Hunt (Hardcover)

I'm a big fan of the Angel series by Mike Ripley. Are they really mysteries? HMMM - this one is, sort of. They are certainly entertaining and full of fun characters and situations. Definitely fit within the mystery genre and I think most mystery buffs - with the exception of the ones who are completely dedicated to intense psychological angst, character abuse, and torment (not that I'm totally opposed to these, just sometimes need a break!) - will have a fun time with Angel and his various associates, neighbors and hangers on. Ripley is a good writer, things move along well, the plot isn't always the strong point, but so much else is that one tends to let it roll. This is one of the earlier Angels, before he got married and lost a bit of his "street cred" and a touch of his insouciant take on life. I guess we all have to grow up - but I had hopes for Angel! However, in this one he is still Angel and a fun read when life is otherwise grey and grim.