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A review by maleficentknits
The Devil's Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth
5.0
Not a book I would think to ever find in my local library or on their summer reading recommendation list for YA. Not at all.
I really loved this book. A little noirish, murder mystery taking place in hell. Our "hero" is Thomas Fool, one of three remaining Information Men in Hell's Bureaucracy that looks into Hell's crime cases. Huh. Yeah. This is Hell. Crime cases in Hell?
Fool and his two co-workers are assigned to look into the mysterious murders of human male prostitutes whose souls are missing and to find out what is The Man, a mysterious man who has been absorbed and transferred into a plant and has his tendrils in practically ever little corner of Hell, up to? Throw in a couple of angels that are bargaining with the Bureaucracy to release souls to Heaven and this is definitely an unusual read.
I really loved this book. A little noirish, murder mystery taking place in hell. Our "hero" is Thomas Fool, one of three remaining Information Men in Hell's Bureaucracy that looks into Hell's crime cases. Huh. Yeah. This is Hell. Crime cases in Hell?
Fool and his two co-workers are assigned to look into the mysterious murders of human male prostitutes whose souls are missing and to find out what is The Man, a mysterious man who has been absorbed and transferred into a plant and has his tendrils in practically ever little corner of Hell, up to? Throw in a couple of angels that are bargaining with the Bureaucracy to release souls to Heaven and this is definitely an unusual read.