Book Trailer: PRIVATE MIDNIGHT by Kris Saknussemm

By the author of the mind-bending sci-fi satire Zanesville, is the demented noir mystery that takes readers into a gritty underworld that is part Chuck Palahniuk, part David Lynch, and all weird. Private Midnight (The Overlook Press / $24.95 (CAN $27.50) / ISBN: 978-1-59020-176-3) is the story of the ultimate antihero, lured down the rabbit-hole by a provocative woman with the kind of secrets that most people would be too scared to call fantasies.

Detective Birch Ritter is a man on the edge—of himself. His past is filled with secrets, shadows, guilt and ghosts. Then a dubious police buddy he hasnt seen in a year introduces him to a mysterious woman who says her business is shadows. She claims to know the mysteries that lie between the darkness and light inside men. But that space between holds more than Ritter may want to find out, and much more than he can resist uncovering. To try to forget is to try to conceal, and concealing evidence is a crime. But maybe revelation is another kind of crime—against nature.

With sharp dialogue and deft prose, Saknussemms detective struggles to find his way through a twisted hall of mirrors. Funny, dark, and curiously perverse, Private Midnight takes noir to the limits of the genre, into a world where even the sunlight is shadowy and deviance is the norm. A journey into the seedy, sexy underbelly of life, this is crime noir for a new generation.


REVIEWS:
James Ellroy meets David Lynch in this addictive mix of noir and supernatural horror from Saknussemm. PW, Starred review

Saknussemm (Zanesville) creates an original blend of noir procedural, horror, and dark eroticismSaknussemm is a writer to watch. Library Journal

By the end the word "freakish" doesn't even begin to describe the events of the novel Off-the-wall strange and surreal—and definitely not recommended as a Mother's Day gift. Kirkus

Exciting Noir with an exotic paranormal spin. Harriet Klausner, 5 Star Review

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