Private detective Fitzroy Maclean Angel is not your ordinary private detective. The world he inhabits is strange and it is about to get stranger. A new born baby means no more cases, no more fingerprinting and no more espionage and, with the arrival of his aging, hippy mother, he has swapped bloodstains for paint stains. Domesticity, or the lack of it, has replaced his high-paced, crime-solving lifestyle. That is, of course, apart from the AWOL screenwriter whose mother’s funeral he must attend.

MIKE RIPLEY is the author of a dozen previous novels in the ‘Angel’ series, which have twice won the Crime Writers’ Last Laugh Award for comedy. He currently lives in East Anglia as a trained Archaeologist. His previous books include: Angel on the Inside, Angel Underground and Bootlegged Angel.

“Pedigree gags, an audacious plot and the supreme pleasure of hearing an unmistakeable master tell the tale”   -- Literary Review