Tinsel Rain

The Fermi Resolution #3

by Moe Lane

Tinsel Rain is the sequel to Frozen Dreams, and is a post-apocalyptic high urban fantasy pulp detective novel. In it, Shamus Tom Vargas investigates murder and magic on the glittering streets of Cin City (capital of the Kingdom of New California). It features action, suspense, and mystery.

287 pages, Paperback

Published June 9, 2022

About the author

Moe Lane is a stay-at-home father who has been self-publishing books since 2020. He likes fantasy, science fiction, roleplaying games, a judicious amount of horror, and both general and alternate history. Eduard Karl Joseph Michael Marcus Koloman Volkhold Maria Habsburg-Lothringen (Ambassador of Hungary to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta) once remarked of him, "Rarely anybody has grasped that well what the Habsburgs are up to." He is the most interesting man alive, at least to himself.

More of his - okay, my - work can be found at the Patreon link below, or at my website.

Reviews

[Mary Catelli · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Fermi Resolution book 3. Spoilers for Frozen Dreams ahead, and it's really a sequel for that. Morgan Barod does not directly relate to it, though it will explain some of the world-building.

It opens with a funeral. An offer for a Case involving whether the dead man had committed suicide. Dealings with a trash spirit in a garbage can. And the arrival of a new ambassador from the Universal Dominion, which means that they have to be really, really, really serious about how there are no mages in New California. He also gets sent a Sidekick.

The rest of the tale involves some recent bad history that Tom wasn't much involved in; the Ambassador talking to Tom about the last two ambassadors; a car that runs on vegetable oil; the Lore and having the sidekick learn it; a lot of deaths; some very unusual revelations, and more.

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's notable nowadays when a sequel is something other than a slavish reskinning of the original under the false belief 'if it worked once....'.
Moe Lane avoids that lazy trap and has crafted a second volume that has it's own story to tell.
Filled with the atmosphere his fans have come to expect from the first novel and the short stories, Tinsel Rain is long on humor and adventure, short on wasted time and energy. Ever step fuels the plot rather than attempting to be a speculative screenplay with stock scenes and unnecessary chases.
Is it to much to hope for another installment before the end of the year?

[Randy Cox · Rating 4 out of 5]

The post-apocalyptic urban fantasy noir genre has doubled in size with the release of Tinsel Rain, the follow up to Frozen Dreams. In this one, Tom Vargas, Shamus of Cin City, is working on a case involving unstable magic that’s leaving bodies behind faster than they can be swept under the rug. As with Frozen Dreams, readers are led along by clever banter and a novel twist on old fashioned detective stories. This was a lot of fun and I hope that more Tom Vargas stories await us.

[Tim Deckert · Rating 5 out of 5]

A worthy follow up to the first Tom Vargas novel. The second book is just as entertaining and quirky as the first, with a smattering of sly cultural references (if the Shirley reference wasn’t an homage to Airplane!, I’m still going to pretend that it was). So brush up on your Lore, and take a fun spin through Cin City.

[Joe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Moe Lane’s style of writing is nothing short of addicting. I got angry that I had to do such inconvenient things as sleeping and going to work. The clever use of humor and the unique way familiar references are tossed into the writing make it feel welcoming. Highly recommend.

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Better than book 1 (Frozen Dreams), which was already pretty darn good.