Midnight Promise

Author(s): Zane Lovitt

Crime Thriller Mystery

A brilliant Melbourne crime novel, told in ten hardboiled stories. John Dorn is a private investigator. Just like his father used to be. It says 'private inquiry agent' in John's Yellow Pages ad because that's what his old man called himself, back before his business folded, his wife left him and he drank himself to death. But John's not going to end up like his father. He doesn't have a wife, or much business. He doesn't really drink, either. Not yet. In each of these ten delicious stories Zane Lovitt presents an intriguing investigation filled with humour and complex, beautifully observed characters. At their centre is John Dorn, solving not so much crimes as funny human puzzles; but the crimes, and the criminals, are forever lurking nearby, taunting him from the city's cold underworld. It's his job to unravel the mystery, or right the wrong, or just do what the client has hired him to do. Somehow, though, there is a misstep at every turn, and John takes another small stumble towards his moment of personal truth. His midnight promise. Perhaps even his redemption.

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* Wide review coverage in tabloid and broadsheet newspapers such as the Age, SMH, Weekend Australian, NZ Herald and Courier Mail * Extract in publications such as the Melbourne and Adelaide Review or the Melbourne Magazine * Profiles in publications such as the Herald Sun, Melbourne City Weekly and Sunday Star Times * Reviews in glossy magazines such as the Big Issue, GQ, Qantas Magazine, Melbourne Magazine * Interview on select radio such as Radio National's 'Books Arts Daily' program * Author to attend a major writers' festival in 2012 * A great Father's Day novel * Social media campaign with prizes and giveaways * Print advertising in trade publications * Wide distribution of reading copies * Online banner advertising on literary websites and on the Text Publishing website. * Trade marketing budget for bookseller catalogues * Sample chapter available as online content for bookseller websites * Featured in the Text newsletters to reading groups, general readers and to the book industry

Winner of Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing: Best First Novel 2013.

General Fields

  • : 9781922147608
  • : Text Publishing Co
  • : The Text Publishing Company
  • : 0.248
  • : September 2013
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 23mm
  • : Australia
  • : November 2013
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 304
  • : 1113
  • : Paperback
  • : Zane Lovitt