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...DAN VINING......................... Los Angeles, 2025. A brutal drought throughout the West has plunged Los Angeles into a new state of crisis. Traffic congestion has forced all emergency services — cops, EMTs, even fire trucks — into the air.
A Novel. Author Dan Vining. Series A Jimmy Miles Mystery. Share Save. Add to Goodreads. From the author of the innovative thriller The Quick comes the second story featuring Jimmy Miles. He is a man who doesn’t sleep. Perfect for a private investigator.
Born in Philadelphia, the son of a Navy gunnery officer, grew up in Virginia, Key West, San Diego, and Daytona Beach. University of Florida at Gainesville, alternately an English major/Journalism major/English major, studying fiction with Smith Kirkpatrick and Harry Crews, poetry with Lawrence Hetrick.
Two novels in one trade volume. There are so many mysteries hidden in the fog off the Pacific Coast. Jimmy Miles has been hired to solve them. But they?re not the only things keeping him up at night...
With Los Angeles and the surrounding region as a supporting character in NightSun, Vining has created a riveting neo-noir crime drama in the vein of Blade Runner but without the rain and replicants.
In The Quick, an investigation into a long-ago murder leads to his discovery of the Sailors?restless strangers who roam the night, trapped between the world of the living and dead.
So are a sudden rash of murders, the memories of an obsessive never-forgotten affair—and the lies about Lucy and his own past, which are far less frightening than the truth. “Dan Vining has reinvented the hard-boiled detective genre and given it a supernatural twist.”—Jeff Long, author of The Wall.
