Keep your eyes peeled for a brand new edition of my interdimensional thriller String City, coming soon!
Described by The Eloquent Page as “smart hard-bitten detective noir with a cosmically mind-bending chocolatey centre,” String City was first published by Solaris Books in 2019, and is now out of print.
The novel chronicles the adventures of a down-at-heel private detective trying to solve a baffling series of cases involving Titan crime lords, big-business vampires with lethal metal fangs, sinister skeletal Fools and the all-powerful spider goddess Arachne.
No wonder he’s confused.
Luckily there’s help at hand in the form of Zephyr, a woman from our world running from her haunted past, and the Scrutator, a mild-mannered robot with aspirations to become (you guessed it) a private detective. With the help of our hero’s never-ending supply of unlikely gadgets – not to mention his rather extraordinary coat – they set out together to save the universe.
If all that sounds like a lot to take in, you’d be right. Springboarding off an earlier series of short stories, I wrote String City with one thing in mind: to pack the novel full of every wild idea I could come up with … and then pack it some more.
For a long time I worried the book would collapse under its own weight. Thankfully it didn’t, and I was delighted when comments started coming in from readers who seemed to be on my – admittedly slightly twisted – wavelength. “String City is balls to the wall insanity,” wrote review site Pile by the Bed, “a mash of quantum physics, classic mythology and noir detective fiction … It is so crazy that it should not work. But it does.”
I’m currently hard at work producing a brand new self-published edition of String City. It’s essentially an exercise in repackaging – I have no reason to make changes to the text. The reprint will be ready to roll later this year. Be the first to get news of the launch by subscribing to free email updates this website.
In the meantime, you can whet your appetite by reading The String City Mysteries, an anthology of the seven short stories that started this whole adventure and which, collectively, form a prequel to String City.
Graham Edwards – Author & Journalist 