Angel Underground [Paperback]

"- 'High comedy quotient, splendid scams... but [don't] fail to notice what a seriously good writer Ripley is.' - Literary Review - 'Exuberant, laugh-aloud fun and cleverness... but there is in addition, an edge and an anger.' - Marcel Berlins, The Times - 'I never read Ripley on trains, planes or buses. He makes me laugh and it annoys the other passengers.' - Minette Walters

' Like fine malt whisky, Angel is high proof and totally addictive' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Farce of the highest calibre' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'The outrageous, riproaring Mr. Ripley is an abiding delight' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'I never read Ripley on trains, planes or buses. He makes me laugh and it annoys the other passengers.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Out of the blue Angel is contacted by his mother who is living a semi-bohemian life in darkest Suffolk. She is concerned about one of her neighbours who has decided to fund a private archaeological dig on his own farmland, convinced he will find the remains from Queen Boudica's royal mint. There have been sinister accidents on site and several diggers have been attacked, so the Angel decides he must infiltrate the dig - only to discover it has already been infiltrated by individuals intent on finding a grave far more recent than the Iron Age...

Mike Ripley has twice won the Crime Writers' Last Laugh Award for comedy crime. He is the crime fiction critic for the Birmingham Post and co-editor of the Fresh Blood anthologies which promote new British crime writing talent. Apart from completing eleven Angel novels, he has written for radio and television, lectured on crime writing and reviewed for over twelve years, which has involved reading around 2 000 crime novels.