Angel Underground

Fitzroy Maclean Angel #11

by Mike Ripley

Manipulated by his mother into helping out with a chaotic archaelogical dig in rural Suffolk, Angel is surprised when his fashion-designer wife Amy insists on accompanying him. In charge of the dig is an elderly eccentric apparently convinced that he will find the remains of Queen Boudica’s royal mint on his own property. However, there have been sinister accidents on site and several diggers have been attacked – and, with his usual knack for finding trouble, Angel gets drawn into investigating a mystery far more recent than the Iron Age …

Telos Publishing is proud to present another in its range of reissues of Mike Ripley’s acclaimed series of comic crime novels – complete with a new, specially-written introduction by the author.

‘Ripley is everything I hate in other writers. His plotting, characterisation, dialogue and scene setting are superb, and he is laugh-aloud funny. I am insanely jealous.’ - R D Wingfield.

Genres: Crime

326 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Mike Ripley is the author of the award-winning 'Angel' series of comedy thrillers which have twice won the CWA Last Laugh Award. It has been said that he 'paints a picture of London Dickens would recognise' and that 'he writes like the young Len Deighton, wierd and wonderful information and very, very funny'. Described as 'England's funniest crime writer' (The Times), he is also a respected critic of crime fiction, writing for the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times and the Birmingham Post among others.

Reviews

[Simon Mcleish · Rating 4 out of 5]

Once again Mike Ripley delivers a funny detective story, this one revolving around an archaeological dig, digging in the garden of an archaeological obsessed lottery winner.

[HadiDee]

Nice, easy and amusing - a great Sunday afternoon read.

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very funny book which draws on the authors experience as a field archaeologist, working in the Essex/Suffolk areas of the UK.

[Jannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I need to read this series again, pretty hilarious