Debut novelist Simon Kurt Unsworth sends the detective novel to Hell. In The Devil's Detective, a sea change is coming to Hell... and a man named Thomas Fool is caught in the middle.
Thomas Fool is an Information Man, an investigator tasked with cataloging and
filing reports on the endless stream of violence and brutality that
flows through Hell. His job holds no reward or satisfaction, because
Hell has rules but no justice. Each new crime is stamped "Do Not
Investigate" and dutifully filed away in the depths of the Bureaucracy.
But when an important political delegation arrives and a human is found
murdered in a horrific manner — extravagant even by Hell's
standards — everything changes. The murders escalate, and their severity
points to the kind of killer not seen for many generations. Something is challenging the rules and order of Hell, so the Bureaucracy sends Fool
to identify and track down the killer... But how do you investigate
murder in a place where death is common currency? Or when your main
suspect pool is a legion of demons? With no memory of his past and only
an irresistible need for justice, Fool will piece together clues and
follow a trail that leads directly into the heart of a dark and chaotic
conspiracy. A revolution is brewing in Hell... and nothing is what it seems.
The Devil's Detective is an audacious, highly
suspenseful thriller set against a nightmarish and wildly vivid world.
Simon Kurt Unsworth has created a phantasmagoric thrill ride filled with stunning set pieces and characters that spring from our deepest
nightmares. It will have readers of both thrillers and horror hanging on by their fingernails until the final word. In Hell, hope is your worst
enemy.
