Night Call

Name: Night Call
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Brenden Carlson
ISBN: 9781705244746

Author: Brenden Carlson

Series: Walking Shadows #1

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Unabridged: 9 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/10/2020

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

The year is 1933. Even in a world with free energy, robot labour, and megacorporations, nothing could stop the collapse of the American Dream. As the world-spanning Great Depression rages on, the remaining New York–based mafias clash with police for control of the broken city. Elias Roche, former police officer turned Mafia enforcer, works to maintain a tenuous peace between the two parties.

Accustomed to settling disputes with the business end of a gun, Roche must expand his repertoire after a violent murder is covered up by the FBI. With the Mafia insisting they’re innocent of the crime and the police powerless to help, Roche and his new Automatic partner, Allen, must root out those responsible before the situation sparks a war in the city streets.

About Brenden Carlson

Brenden Carlson is a chemist and freelance writer. He is currently completing a master's degree in organic chemistry at Brock University. He lives in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alexander on April 09, 2021

Night Call has a lovely alt-history setting, infused with steampunk elements, that should provide a rich context to tell atmospheric, noir-ish stories. Sadly the writing is poor and lets the novel down. It's 1930s New York, which has quite literally been split in two distinct economic parts - a huge......more

Goodreads review by Marjolein (UrlPhantomhive) on August 13, 2020

Set in an alternative 1930s New York, a former police officer Roche and his new automatic (robot) partner Allen, need to keep a perilous peace in order to keep war from its streets. This was a gritty novel. The alternative setting worked quite well, but ultimately it also left me with a lot of quest......more

Goodreads review by Annie on December 21, 2020

Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader. Night Call is the first in an SF-noir alternate 1930s timeline PI murder mystery series by Brenden Carlson. Released 10th Nov 2020 by Dundurn, it's 336 pages and available in paperback, audio, and ebook formats. This is an engaging book in a much b......more

Goodreads review by Miranda on April 20, 2020

Night Call by Brenden Carlson Summary Elias Roche is a consulting detective in 1933. He’s been through a world war more partners than he can count. It’s never a good thing when he receives a night call from the police commissioner, and now he’s investigating the slaughter of several police officers by......more

Goodreads review by T.B. on February 26, 2020

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for hooking me up with an ARC of this! My Booktube This is an alternate history science fiction story about the 1930s... but with robots and it is functions basically like a police show. So basically Law & Order: Robot Edition. And it does it very well, as the h......more