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In Perpetuity

by Maria Hoey
Peter Hoey
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It’s a surreal smuggling operation across the boundaries of life and death in the latest moody mystery from award-winning graphic novelists Peter & Maria Hoey. The Afterlife is just as the ancient Greeks imagined: an endless twilight where time stands still in perpetuity and shades have nowhere to go. For Jim, that means long shifts at a gas station, with only crossword puzzles and cigarettes to break the tedium. One day, two criminal shades from Jim’s past come to collect a debt. They’ve tracked him down for something he didn’t know he had: the ability to cross back into the living world. It’s a rare gift, and they intend to exploit it. During Jim’s first crossing back into sunny California, he meets Olivia, who is dying on an Echo Park sidewalk. Pulling her back from the edge of death, he strikes a connection that will run deeper than either can imagine. Jim weaves back and forth between the Afterlife and Los Angeles, desperately trying to evade the criminals’ plot. But he and Olivia are pulled into a web of deceit and murder that reaches across both L.A. and the A.L., and ultimately to Hades himself. With a heady blend of film noir and Greek mythology, In Perpetuity reveals both the human capacity for self-deception and the endurance of love.

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  • Series

    In Perpetuity

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  • Release date

    April 16, 2024

  • Pages

    212

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781649361912

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 19, 2024
      The Hoey siblings (The Bend of Luck) twist pulp fiction into Lynchian strangeness in this savvy noir thriller set in the land of the dead. In a mundane afterlife rendered as a gloomier, shabbier version of Los Angeles, Jim spends eternity pumping gas at a filling station. When he reconnects with some shady acquaintances from his mortal past, he turns out to have a talent for crossing over to the world of the living and gets sent via illegal seances to run criminal errands between planes of existence. Mortal Olivia becomes his conduit and­, to Jim’s dismay, gets tangled up in the living/dead crime ring. He attempts to help her get out, but he’s warned by the thugs running it that “there are worse things than being dead.” The Hoeys’ diagrammatic layouts, reminiscent of Chris Ware, lend a dry matter-of-factness to the dark fantasy, with strong, flat colors neatly differentiating the gray-toned afterlife from the sunny L.A. of the living. In classic noir fashion, the plot runs Byzantine, with double crosses, deaths and undeaths, corrupt cops on both sides of the mortal divide, and an organization called C.H.A.R.O.N. engaged in seedy intrigue. Fans of the deadpan weird won’t want to miss this. Agent: Peter Ryan, Stimola Literary.

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  • English

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