Titanshade, Dan Stout
Titanshade, Dan Stout
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Titanshade

Author: Dan Stout

Narrator: Mikael Naramore

Unabridged: 12 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/12/2019

Synopsis

This noir fantasy thriller from a debut author introduces the gritty town of Titanshade, where danger lurks around every corner.Carter's a homicide cop in Titanshade, an oil boomtown where 8-tracks are state of the art, disco rules the radio, and all the best sorcerers wear designer labels. It's also a metropolis teetering on the edge of disaster. As its oil reserves run dry, the city's future hangs on a possible investment from the reclusive amphibians known as Squibs.But now negotiations have been derailed by the horrific murder of a Squib diplomat. The pressure's never been higher to make a quick arrest, even as Carter's investigation leads him into conflict with the city's elite. Undermined by corrupt coworkers and falsified evidence, and with a suspect list that includes power-hungry politicians, oil magnates, and mad scientists, Carter must find the killer before the investigation turns into a witch-hunt and those closest to him pay the ultimate price on the filthy streets of Titanshade.© 2019 by Dan Stout. ℗ 2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

About Dan Stout

Dan Stout writes about fever dreams and half-glimpsed shapes in the shadows. His fiction draws on travels throughout Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Rim as well as an employment history spanning everything from subpoena server to assistant well driller. Dan's stories have appeared in publications such as The Saturday Evening Post, Nature, and Intergalactic Medicine Show.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dan on October 15, 2018

I mean, c'mon... I wrote the thing. Did you really think I was going to give it less than five stars?......more

Goodreads review by Nathan on February 19, 2019

Why read this review when you could be reading Titanshade instead? Are you perhaps unsure if this book is for you? How? Look at the cover. LOOK AT THE COVER. This cover tells you exactly what you're getting into. It's noir. It's pulp. It's a gritty cop drama where the lead detective's doing his best......more

Goodreads review by Adah on April 07, 2020

Titanshade has the right twists and turns that makes for a great thriller.......more

Goodreads review by jess ~has abandoned GR~ on December 26, 2018

[Okay, so, I'm basically a ray of sunshine, but every now and then I indulge in some good old fashioned violent noir, and it was about that time.] I loved this book. Admittedly, it's just the sort of thing that I'm into, kind of a sci-fi/fantasy/noir kind of novel set in a world technologically s......more

Goodreads review by Katherine on April 06, 2019

Titanshade is the most intensely imaginative detective novel I’ve ever read. Unrelenting in its pace, the plot packs a visceral wallop that keeps one reeling from the first page to the last. And yet it’s all about the voice; Stout is a master of dialogue, and his characters compel the reader ever de......more

Quotes

"Take a little Mickey Spillane, some Dashiell Hammett, a bit of Raymond Chandler, and mix it with Phillip K. Dick's Blade Runner; add a taste of C. J. Box, and Craig Johnson, and you've got a masterpiece of a first novel. I hate to call any novel a work of genius, but Stout's Titanshade taps all the right keys." —W. Michael Gear, New York Times bestselling author"Debut author Stout combines a pitch-perfect noir tone and a richly detailed world full of human, amphibian, and less-identifiable characters in this instantly gripping fantastical mystery.... Stout handles this complex mystery with ease, invoking the best elements of classic noir mysteries, while fearlessly making this world, with its retro style and multilayered mythology, all his own." —Publishers Weekly (starred)"Titanshade is entirely unique: it’s a gritty noir murder mystery on an alien world with multiple species, a strange form of sorcery, a powerful religion, and large-scale political intrigue. And it’s set in the 1970s, with pay phones, 8-track tapes, racial tensions, and arguments about disco music. What’s amazing is how good it is at being all of these: the genuinely compelling mystery lives in a hugely original sf world and an immersive historical milieu." —ALA Booklist (starred)

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