Addleton Heights - Padgett, George Wright

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Résumé :
A steampunk novel for everyone... witty, fun, exciting, and inventive. George Wright Padgett hits all the right notes! -Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author Six hundred feet above the Atlantic, the platform city of Addleton Heights harbors deadly secrets. When private detective Kip Kipsey investigates a double murder at a floating mansion, the victim's cryptic dying message leads him into a citywide conspiracy. Partnering with brilliant inventor Janae Nelson-a woman with her own dangerous past-they race to expose an industrialist's terrifying plan. In a world of mechanical marvels and vertical class divisions, can they prevent catastrophe when the entire system is built on oppression? A noir detective adventure where Victorian technology meets social revolution....

Biographie:
Texas native George Wright Padgett is a multi-genre author who 'grew up' reading science fiction and comic books. After a brief stint writing children's picture books, he turned to darker themes. He now writes a mix of novels and short stories in sci-fi, detective, and horror categories, bringing his distinctive artistic flair to each genre he explores.A versatile creative talent, Padgett divides his 'non-writing' time between being a husband and father of two, a jazz piano player, a graphic artist, and a playwright. His background in visual arts and music infuses his writing with a cinematic quality and rhythmic pacing that readers find particularly engaging in his genre fiction....

Sommaire:
New Year's Eve 1901: Six hundred feet above the Atlantic Ocean, the platform city of Addleton Heights balances on massive, soot-covered metal stilts. A grisly double murder interrupts the party in the floating mansion of the city's most powerful man, and for reasons unknown, he coerces detective-for-hire T.H. Kipsey into taking the enigmatic case. George Wright Padgett weaves a cat-and-mouse mystery through a steampunk, alternate-American history that will thrill readers of Cherie Priest's Boneshaker and Christopher Beats's steam-noir Magnocracy series. Join Kip as he races against time to unravel the clues that will thrust him across the city, up to the clouds, and into the depths beneath Addleton Heights....