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Transylvania Detective Squad
A brave young detective in Purgatory must stop the most notorious villain of all time from returning from the grave.
336 pages, Paperback
First published February 5, 2013
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February 21, 2013
Just a few pages into this story, I was sitting going ‘WOW, this is amazing’. It’s such an original, unique take on the whole supernatural world. So here’s a bit about the story, then we’ll get into what I thought -
The story starts with an intriguing and interesting recap of another person’s tale, Major Green. It is meant for a guide for Tom Flynn, who is being sent to war. It tells of how the Germans captured Major Green and tried to convince him, during recovery of retrograde Amnesia, that he was a German spy in the British camp. Tom is in the middle of the war 1944, when he’s killed. When he arrives in Britannia, a Realm of Purgatory, he believes that Germans have set up an elaborate plot to confuse him.
However, Tom soon realises that he’s not been captured by the Germans and it isn’t all a ploy. With his skills, he’s sent to work in the The Transylvania Flying Squad of Detectives, a police department located in the Realm of Britannia, Transylvania City, where the deep dark souls live. Vampires, werewolves, goblins and witches run amok in Transylvania City and Tom is the newest member of the police force there.
Intriguing isn’t it? Well, it only gets better. Because Tom arrives in the middle of a little conundrum. Strange things are going on and even the police captain Red, doesn’t understand what’s happening. Can Tom figure it out?
The blurb for this book hints at ‘one of the worst villains throughout all history’. With the title of this book, you would assume that this meant Dracula or Vlad the Impaler, both of whom are mentioned throughout the story. However, this isn’t right. The villain is much more mysterious and more of a surprise when you come across their name and history.
What I loved about this book was that the supernatural aspect, while mentioned a lot and the basis for the atmosphere, scenery etc, was actually the secondary story. First and foremost the Transylvania Flying Squad of Detectives is a detective novel and murder mystery. It had me engrossed the whole way through, never knowing who or what people were of if they were who or what they said they were. Overall, a fascinating, intriguing story. In my opinion, it was left open for more to come and I can’t wait.
The story starts with an intriguing and interesting recap of another person’s tale, Major Green. It is meant for a guide for Tom Flynn, who is being sent to war. It tells of how the Germans captured Major Green and tried to convince him, during recovery of retrograde Amnesia, that he was a German spy in the British camp. Tom is in the middle of the war 1944, when he’s killed. When he arrives in Britannia, a Realm of Purgatory, he believes that Germans have set up an elaborate plot to confuse him.
However, Tom soon realises that he’s not been captured by the Germans and it isn’t all a ploy. With his skills, he’s sent to work in the The Transylvania Flying Squad of Detectives, a police department located in the Realm of Britannia, Transylvania City, where the deep dark souls live. Vampires, werewolves, goblins and witches run amok in Transylvania City and Tom is the newest member of the police force there.
Intriguing isn’t it? Well, it only gets better. Because Tom arrives in the middle of a little conundrum. Strange things are going on and even the police captain Red, doesn’t understand what’s happening. Can Tom figure it out?
The blurb for this book hints at ‘one of the worst villains throughout all history’. With the title of this book, you would assume that this meant Dracula or Vlad the Impaler, both of whom are mentioned throughout the story. However, this isn’t right. The villain is much more mysterious and more of a surprise when you come across their name and history.
What I loved about this book was that the supernatural aspect, while mentioned a lot and the basis for the atmosphere, scenery etc, was actually the secondary story. First and foremost the Transylvania Flying Squad of Detectives is a detective novel and murder mystery. It had me engrossed the whole way through, never knowing who or what people were of if they were who or what they said they were. Overall, a fascinating, intriguing story. In my opinion, it was left open for more to come and I can’t wait.
February 25, 2013
Most fun I ever had reading a book
I read this in one sitting and then read it again the next day after coming across some of the comments left here.
This book is simply the best and I had not heard of it till I accidently came across it here at Goodreads.
It is so much fun and the only thing I can say negative is that the sequel is not out. It actually hurts waiting for it.
As for a movie I'm all in pushing for this book to be made into a movie. I just don't know who to wish for to star in it. Ryan Gosling?
Emma Stone?
This is simply the most exciting murder mystery ever, and the ending is wham-bang fun and full of twists.
Tom Flynn is maybe not as smart as Sherlock Holmes, but so much more fun to root for.
Also the writing in this book is just so smart, some of the best descriptions ever.
I loved the speech the villain gives at the end explaing why he needs a victory against Tom.
It is some of the superb dialogue in this novel and it's not even the best one. I don't wan't to spoil it for you - you have just got to read this fantastic stroy.
I read this in one sitting and then read it again the next day after coming across some of the comments left here.
This book is simply the best and I had not heard of it till I accidently came across it here at Goodreads.
It is so much fun and the only thing I can say negative is that the sequel is not out. It actually hurts waiting for it.
As for a movie I'm all in pushing for this book to be made into a movie. I just don't know who to wish for to star in it. Ryan Gosling?
Emma Stone?
This is simply the most exciting murder mystery ever, and the ending is wham-bang fun and full of twists.
Tom Flynn is maybe not as smart as Sherlock Holmes, but so much more fun to root for.
Also the writing in this book is just so smart, some of the best descriptions ever.
I loved the speech the villain gives at the end explaing why he needs a victory against Tom.
It is some of the superb dialogue in this novel and it's not even the best one. I don't wan't to spoil it for you - you have just got to read this fantastic stroy.
February 25, 2013
Rip roaring YA adventure that appears to be Taylor made for a series... I hope. Just crying out to be made into a film.
February 13, 2013
This book will change your life for the better. It is so entertaining and exciting. Would make the best movie since Men in Black
May 3, 2013
The following review is for The Transylvania Flying Squad Of Detectives, by M.L. Dunn. The copy I read was provided by either the author or the publisher free of charge through the GoodReads FirstReads program. I have not been, nor will I be, compensated in any manner by the publisher, author, GoodReads, or anyone affiliated with any of these people or entities for my review.
Since I like to give good news first, let us start with the good points of this book. I liked it. I really liked it a lot. For the most part, the story and plot move along swiftly with mostly believable characters, most of whom have a good sense of depth to them. The book was written in the style I like best: just enough description for my imagination to take over without being verbose or flowery or, heavens forbid, Dickensian in nature. The book starts with Tom, our leading character, dying in WWII and winding up in Britannia (Purgatory) for his next life. He is met by Mr. Jordan, who is tasked with routing incoming residents to where they can fit in the best and do the work they do the best. Tom is a bit of a perplexing person to place as he's from the United States, and people from the U.S. normally wind up in the New Amsterdam Realm. After a bit of discussion, a change of clothes, and a last-minute impulsive decision on Tom's part, Tom decides to go to Transylvania and join their police force there as a detective (hence the name The Transylvania Flying Squad of Detectives, and no, the detectives do not get to fly). On the way to Transylvania City, Tom meets up with another recruit, Mike Horne, who also died fighting in WWII and arrived in Britannia that very day as well. Tom and Mike get along just fine on the train ride into Transylvania City, where things start to get very weird, very quickly. Once in Transylvania City, we meet a decent cast of characters, including vampires, werewolves, rock trolls, gremlins, goblins, witches, and the like. We even meet who turns out to be the ultimate villain in the book, we just don't know it yet. The story continues to flow at a decent pace, gradually speeding up towards the end where by the last 20 pages or so, I had the book grasped tightly in both hands, words mere inches from my face so as to see them better, and reading just as fast as I could to find out what happened next, how Tom got out of each jam he found himself in (and he found himself in an almost implausible number of jams to get out of at the end).
I'll bet you're wondering, if I liked the book so much and found it so engrossing, especially at the end, why did I give such a low star rating. The reason for that is two-fold. First, I thought the beginning of the book could have been done better. The author spends an entire prologue on this story Tom heard while he was in training about how the Germans tried to turn a captured Allied pilot into a double agent by using the pilot's amnesia to concoct this entire story about how he was really a German spy and had infiltrated the RAF two years earlier. This was a good premise, and the author frequently had Tom remembering back to the lecture about this pilot, but then he only uses it for maybe 2 pages at the beginning of the first chapter. He really could have done something with that premise and not had Tom believing Mr. Jordan quite so quickly about being in Purgatory. But the author didn't. He set up this wonderful premise, and then he didn't use it to it's fullest extent. The other reason I gave such a low star rating was because of the constant errors in the book. I hope the copy I received was an uncorrected proof copy because the grammatical errors, typos, missing words, added words, sentences that just didn't make any sense, misspellings, and poor editing plague the book and almost bring it to its knees. I would expect in a novel this size for there to be no more than one, maybe two, if I'm feeling generous, errors for the whole book. Unfortunately, there was an average of one to two errors per chapter! Errors of this sort really interfere with the enjoyable reading of a book because just as you're really getting into the story, I mean really into it--disbelief has been suspended--you're jarred back into the real word by a sentence that makes no sense, a typo, a punctuation error that changes the meaning of what you're reading, a missing word, and extra word, or just plain poor grammar. Now hopefully my copy is an uncorrected proof copy, even though it doesn't say that it is, and hopefully these errors are corrected in the copies that are available for sale, because The Transylvania Flying Squad of Detectives is a fun read that deserves better than to have its readers turned off by all the lazy errors. Those are the two reasons I rated this book so low. If someone can prove to me that the errors are corrected in the sale copies I will very happily add a star to my rating.
So, basically, if you can handle the errors without them disrupting your reading flow too badly, you like detective/mystery stories, and you like a lot of weird sprinkled around your books, The Transylvania Flying Squad of Detectives is for you. And maybe you can be the one to tell me why the detectives don't fly if they're a flying squad of detectives.
5/2/13 ETA: I received a nice message from the author today. It seems he is working diligently to take care of the grammatical, spelling, and other technical errors I was complaining of. He also hinted at a change near the end that would bring the tale from the beginning full circle and make it more relevant to the story. Ordinarily, I'd wait to see the changes made first before upgrading my rating, but honestly, I loved the story and I want it to be rated higher than three stars, so I've gone ahead and upgraded it to four stars. So, I'd say get the next edition of the book, because once the problems are fixed, it's going to be great!
Since I like to give good news first, let us start with the good points of this book. I liked it. I really liked it a lot. For the most part, the story and plot move along swiftly with mostly believable characters, most of whom have a good sense of depth to them. The book was written in the style I like best: just enough description for my imagination to take over without being verbose or flowery or, heavens forbid, Dickensian in nature. The book starts with Tom, our leading character, dying in WWII and winding up in Britannia (Purgatory) for his next life. He is met by Mr. Jordan, who is tasked with routing incoming residents to where they can fit in the best and do the work they do the best. Tom is a bit of a perplexing person to place as he's from the United States, and people from the U.S. normally wind up in the New Amsterdam Realm. After a bit of discussion, a change of clothes, and a last-minute impulsive decision on Tom's part, Tom decides to go to Transylvania and join their police force there as a detective (hence the name The Transylvania Flying Squad of Detectives, and no, the detectives do not get to fly). On the way to Transylvania City, Tom meets up with another recruit, Mike Horne, who also died fighting in WWII and arrived in Britannia that very day as well. Tom and Mike get along just fine on the train ride into Transylvania City, where things start to get very weird, very quickly. Once in Transylvania City, we meet a decent cast of characters, including vampires, werewolves, rock trolls, gremlins, goblins, witches, and the like. We even meet who turns out to be the ultimate villain in the book, we just don't know it yet. The story continues to flow at a decent pace, gradually speeding up towards the end where by the last 20 pages or so, I had the book grasped tightly in both hands, words mere inches from my face so as to see them better, and reading just as fast as I could to find out what happened next, how Tom got out of each jam he found himself in (and he found himself in an almost implausible number of jams to get out of at the end).
I'll bet you're wondering, if I liked the book so much and found it so engrossing, especially at the end, why did I give such a low star rating. The reason for that is two-fold. First, I thought the beginning of the book could have been done better. The author spends an entire prologue on this story Tom heard while he was in training about how the Germans tried to turn a captured Allied pilot into a double agent by using the pilot's amnesia to concoct this entire story about how he was really a German spy and had infiltrated the RAF two years earlier. This was a good premise, and the author frequently had Tom remembering back to the lecture about this pilot, but then he only uses it for maybe 2 pages at the beginning of the first chapter. He really could have done something with that premise and not had Tom believing Mr. Jordan quite so quickly about being in Purgatory. But the author didn't. He set up this wonderful premise, and then he didn't use it to it's fullest extent. The other reason I gave such a low star rating was because of the constant errors in the book. I hope the copy I received was an uncorrected proof copy because the grammatical errors, typos, missing words, added words, sentences that just didn't make any sense, misspellings, and poor editing plague the book and almost bring it to its knees. I would expect in a novel this size for there to be no more than one, maybe two, if I'm feeling generous, errors for the whole book. Unfortunately, there was an average of one to two errors per chapter! Errors of this sort really interfere with the enjoyable reading of a book because just as you're really getting into the story, I mean really into it--disbelief has been suspended--you're jarred back into the real word by a sentence that makes no sense, a typo, a punctuation error that changes the meaning of what you're reading, a missing word, and extra word, or just plain poor grammar. Now hopefully my copy is an uncorrected proof copy, even though it doesn't say that it is, and hopefully these errors are corrected in the copies that are available for sale, because The Transylvania Flying Squad of Detectives is a fun read that deserves better than to have its readers turned off by all the lazy errors. Those are the two reasons I rated this book so low. If someone can prove to me that the errors are corrected in the sale copies I will very happily add a star to my rating.
So, basically, if you can handle the errors without them disrupting your reading flow too badly, you like detective/mystery stories, and you like a lot of weird sprinkled around your books, The Transylvania Flying Squad of Detectives is for you. And maybe you can be the one to tell me why the detectives don't fly if they're a flying squad of detectives.
5/2/13 ETA: I received a nice message from the author today. It seems he is working diligently to take care of the grammatical, spelling, and other technical errors I was complaining of. He also hinted at a change near the end that would bring the tale from the beginning full circle and make it more relevant to the story. Ordinarily, I'd wait to see the changes made first before upgrading my rating, but honestly, I loved the story and I want it to be rated higher than three stars, so I've gone ahead and upgraded it to four stars. So, I'd say get the next edition of the book, because once the problems are fixed, it's going to be great!
April 11, 2013
***** Stars
Definitely the best detective/mystery/thriller of the year.
I would love to see maybe Jake Gyllenhall as Tom Flynn. Emma Stone as Rebecca
Definitely the best detective/mystery/thriller of the year.
I would love to see maybe Jake Gyllenhall as Tom Flynn. Emma Stone as Rebecca
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August 25, 2020Fun and exciting. Would make a great movie!
December 18, 2014
I bought this book cause I came across it at Library Journal.
Glad I did, because it it great. Highly-inventive. Lot of fun to read and the ending is top-notch.
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By Douglas Lord on December 18, 2014 1 Comment
To paraphrase Dean Martin: Ain’t life a kick in the head? Choosing the BFD picks of December has been impossibly difficult given the sheer amount of awesomeness going on in the world of writers creating books dudes should read. Winnowing down the entries to only seven was the work of many hours, costing me so many cups of coffee that BFD HQ burned through two Keurig machines. It was worth the pain, though, because I’m able to share a total hot mess of bookage: A detective novel set in the afterlife, a book of poetic short stories all about faraway conflicts, three nonfiction titles about teamwork, heroism, and how far being nice can get you, a lifelong Sasquatch hunt, and Matt Sumell’s wicked rockin’ debut novel about a hella energetic, confused dude finding his way in the world, a story that goes to show you can’t keep a good man down—not for long anyway.
P.S. Don’t miss the 2014 LJ Books for Dudes Eleven Best Books countdown of 2014. I’ll announce one per day on the ‘ol LJ BFD twitlink.
squad 188x300 A Total Hot Mess of Bookage | Books for DudesDunn, Merritt L. The Transylvania Detective Squad. CreateSpace. 2014. 277p. ISBN 9781503007772. $11.99. F
Let’s make it clear at the outset that this is a small-budget self-published affair; its lack of pretension and literary aspiration (both of which qualities succeeded so wildly for James Brotherton in Reclaiming the Dead) work to its advantage. It’s straight-ahead pulpy fiction in a simple, soft-boiled Mike Hammer/Philip Marlowe gumshoe style, and surprisingly successful. The story follows Tom Flynn, a World War II soldier killed in action who goes to Purgatory, aka Britannia, where everything resembles a gothic past: “…England was about 1922—fashion, the trains, technology…” Within five pages the stoic Flynn is recruited for the Transylvania Flying Squad of detectives. As Flynn raps with his new boss on the train to the city, he starts getting a load of what’s to come, that Transylvania City is not, how you say, “normal.” Somewhat akin to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, all sorts of magical creatures—trolls, werewolves, witches, vampires, golems, book reviewers—live there, which allows Dunn to mash up the detective intrigue with interwar British motifs and otherworldly characters, spells, potions, and whatnot. Detectives are tasked with protecting tourists and preventing mischief, which includes stopping anybody from using magic to affect things back on Earth. Soon, though, Tom is thrust headlong into a crazy-assed situation where he’s trying to head off a hurricane of crap starring Jack the Ripper, who’s newly returned from the Dark Realms and dying to get back to Earth to continue his ripping ways. Plus: fast, nonstop action and fun; minus: the plot can feel a bit patchy and descriptions are meager. VERDICT What can one man do with pen and paper? You’ll be pleasantly surprised as Dunn has churned out a damned good book for the price.
Glad I did, because it it great. Highly-inventive. Lot of fun to read and the ending is top-notch.
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A Total Hot Mess of Bookage | Books for Dudes
By Douglas Lord on December 18, 2014 1 Comment
To paraphrase Dean Martin: Ain’t life a kick in the head? Choosing the BFD picks of December has been impossibly difficult given the sheer amount of awesomeness going on in the world of writers creating books dudes should read. Winnowing down the entries to only seven was the work of many hours, costing me so many cups of coffee that BFD HQ burned through two Keurig machines. It was worth the pain, though, because I’m able to share a total hot mess of bookage: A detective novel set in the afterlife, a book of poetic short stories all about faraway conflicts, three nonfiction titles about teamwork, heroism, and how far being nice can get you, a lifelong Sasquatch hunt, and Matt Sumell’s wicked rockin’ debut novel about a hella energetic, confused dude finding his way in the world, a story that goes to show you can’t keep a good man down—not for long anyway.
P.S. Don’t miss the 2014 LJ Books for Dudes Eleven Best Books countdown of 2014. I’ll announce one per day on the ‘ol LJ BFD twitlink.
squad 188x300 A Total Hot Mess of Bookage | Books for DudesDunn, Merritt L. The Transylvania Detective Squad. CreateSpace. 2014. 277p. ISBN 9781503007772. $11.99. F
Let’s make it clear at the outset that this is a small-budget self-published affair; its lack of pretension and literary aspiration (both of which qualities succeeded so wildly for James Brotherton in Reclaiming the Dead) work to its advantage. It’s straight-ahead pulpy fiction in a simple, soft-boiled Mike Hammer/Philip Marlowe gumshoe style, and surprisingly successful. The story follows Tom Flynn, a World War II soldier killed in action who goes to Purgatory, aka Britannia, where everything resembles a gothic past: “…England was about 1922—fashion, the trains, technology…” Within five pages the stoic Flynn is recruited for the Transylvania Flying Squad of detectives. As Flynn raps with his new boss on the train to the city, he starts getting a load of what’s to come, that Transylvania City is not, how you say, “normal.” Somewhat akin to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, all sorts of magical creatures—trolls, werewolves, witches, vampires, golems, book reviewers—live there, which allows Dunn to mash up the detective intrigue with interwar British motifs and otherworldly characters, spells, potions, and whatnot. Detectives are tasked with protecting tourists and preventing mischief, which includes stopping anybody from using magic to affect things back on Earth. Soon, though, Tom is thrust headlong into a crazy-assed situation where he’s trying to head off a hurricane of crap starring Jack the Ripper, who’s newly returned from the Dark Realms and dying to get back to Earth to continue his ripping ways. Plus: fast, nonstop action and fun; minus: the plot can feel a bit patchy and descriptions are meager. VERDICT What can one man do with pen and paper? You’ll be pleasantly surprised as Dunn has churned out a damned good book for the price.
February 22, 2016
Let’s make it clear at the outset that this is a small-budget self-published affair; its lack of pretension and literary aspiration (both of which qualities succeeded so wildly for James Brotherton in Reclaiming the Dead) work to its advantage. It’s straight-ahead pulpy fiction in a simple, soft-boiled Mike Hammer/Philip Marlowe gumshoe style, and surprisingly successful. The story follows Tom Flynn, a World War II soldier killed in action who goes to Purgatory, aka Britannia, where everything resembles a gothic past: “…England was about 1922—fashion, the trains, technology…” Within five pages the stoic Flynn is recruited for the Transylvania Flying Squad of detectives. As Flynn raps with his new boss on the train to the city, he starts getting a load of what’s to come, that Transylvania City is not, how you say, “normal.” Somewhat akin to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, all sorts of magical creatures—trolls, werewolves, witches, vampires, golems, book reviewers—live there, which allows Dunn to mash up the detective intrigue with interwar British motifs and otherworldly characters, spells, potions, and whatnot. Detectives are tasked with protecting tourists and preventing mischief, which includes stopping anybody from using magic to affect things back on Earth. Soon, though, Tom is thrust headlong into a crazy-assed situation where he’s trying to head off a hurricane of crap starring Jack the Ripper, who’s newly returned from the Dark Realms and dying to get back to Earth to continue his ripping ways. Plus: fast, nonstop action and fun; minus: the plot can feel a bit patchy and descriptions are meager. VERDICT What can one man do with pen and paper? You’ll be pleasantly surprised as Dunn has churned out a damned good book for the price.
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October 19, 2013
This book borrows heavily from all the legends we know about witches, vampires, rock trolls, goblins, and then pushes them all into a realm we've all heard of And ends up creating a very original story. To be truthful I probably would have never picked up this book because of the title, but I saw it get glowing reviews in a number of groups I'm in and I'm always looking for something new, so I took a chance and picked up a copy, and I am so glad I did. The author, ML Dunn, takes a fantastical situation and a dynamic place and weaves a wonderful action adventure that is filled with tense situations, great characters, and a very enjoyable story line. In reading reviews beforehand people kept mentioning again and again how this book would make a really cool movie and I have to say that I couldn't agree more. From the eerie setting, to the wild characters, to the crazed action sequences, this book has all the parts that would make a great film. I know it played out like one in my head as I read it. Please take my advice on this one, look past the title, buy this book, and just start reading, because I'm pretty sure your going to enjoy it. I know I did.
January 16, 2014
Super original. I think of this book as a young Philip Marlowe working as a detective in Purgatory. The case by itself will hold your interest, but when you combine it with taking place in the one city in Purgatory where witches, vampires and other creatures of the night exist - you've got something special. Especially when you add in some sharp dialogue and clever detective work. Plus, allowing this to take place in the Hereafter made it so the author Matthew Finneran - could bring back to life one of the most notorious villains of all time and he put him to good use. The villain ( I won't spoil who it is - you'll find out halfway through the book) delivers one great speech at the end. Rumor has it this is going to be made into a film. I will be the first in line to buy a ticket. As well the cover is kick-ass.
November 11, 2013
An interesting twist to what happens to one when they die. I truly enjoyed this and it would be interesting as a movie and a series I think... If they do it right. I would have given this 5 stars but it needs to have the first person errors corrected to third person to be in line with the rest of the story. I look forward to the next book.
October 19, 2014
A good fun read. Well played as a 1920's detective thriller! Well worth the time to read!
November 14, 2014
Really loved this book.
Great plot. Plenty of suspense. Moves fast, but you never feel lost.
I could really see this as a TV series. Lots of excellent, well-drawn minor characters.
Great plot. Plenty of suspense. Moves fast, but you never feel lost.
I could really see this as a TV series. Lots of excellent, well-drawn minor characters.
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