Devils in Paradise
A.D. Price
Type: ARC
Genre: Historical fiction, mystery
Word count: 80,000
Warnings: Swearing
L.A., 1946. P.I.s Kit and Henry are hired by a pulp magazine publisher to find a stolen first edition Jules Verne and the former child prodigy and Code Girl who ran off with it. To their surprise, as J. Edgar Hoover’s anti-Red crusade heats up around town, the hunt embroils the detectives in an off-the-rails Russian spy ring. Please note: this book is part of a series, and a series synopsis will be provided.
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It’s a hot October in 1946, and L.A. has become ground zero in America’s anti-Red crusade. Russians are the last thing on PI’s Kit Comfort and Henry Richman’s minds, however, when they accept a job finding a rare first edition of a Jules Verne novel. Client Dreiland, a pulp magazine publisher, believes his assistant Marlene, a former child prodigy and Code Girl, stole the book, then did a runner. To find the book then, Kit and Henry must find the mysterious Marlene. The detectives soon discover they aren’t the only ones on the hunt, and their relentless Russian competitors are deadly serious about finding Marlene first. As subterfuge, secrets and bodies pile up, Kit and Henry are forced to question the nature of their mission and who exactly is paying their fees.
A native of Washington, D.C., A.D. Price is an award-winning author specializing in historical crime fiction and arts-related nonfiction. In addition to articles and books for Enslow Press, Grunge.com, Netflix, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, among others, she served as a writer-editor for the celebrated historical reference series the American Film Institute’s Catalog of Feature Films.
Devils in Paradise is her third Comfort & Company mystery, a series set in 1946 Los Angeles. The first, After the Blue, Blue Rain, was published in 2022. She’s a longtime resident of the great city of Los Angeles.
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