Blavycoal

Matt Ingwalson, author of Shelf Unbound's 2015 Indie Novel of the Year and IndieReader's 2024 Pop Culture Novel of the Year, delivers a noir fantasy about men and women, order and chaos, and the predator inside us all.

"If every man is a wolf, yearning for a forest, every woman is a werewolf, waiting for the moon to set her free."

Lohma is America's 51st city-state. It is a place of perfect symmetry and order, and the Gumshoe is the alpha dog of Precinct 16T. He doesn't believe in clues, he believes in motives. Find out who wanted the dead person dead, and you've found your killer.

It wouldn't be that hard a job if there weren't all these amateur detectives running around, galavanting over rooftops, twirling their monocles, and getting themselves killed.

But the Gumshoe's methods are tested when a body is found ripped to shreds in the middle of EU Street. Does Lohma finally have its first serial killer? Or has something even scarier come to town, something that emerges just once a month, and only when the moon is full?

Blavycoal is a work of speculative sci-fi, noir mystery and monster horror, all rolled into one sexy, comic, thought-provoking, page-turning beast. It will appeal to fans of Alan Moore, Vladimir Sorokin, Thomas Pynchon and Philip K. Dick alike.

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