THE MIDNIGHT PROMISE

A brilliant Melbourne crime novel, told in ten hardboiled stories.

Ned Kelly Award 2013 for Best First Fiction

John Dess: private eye, public nuisance - at least to the targets he's employed to catch in the act. And to the cops, sometimes. And frequently to the few people he calls friends. John's good at his job, and he'd like to think he's done some good by doing it. Problem is, it's not always clear what's good or bad in his line of work. And sometimes what you think is good can just lead you deeper into the shit. Ten cases. Many shades of grey. One promise that's getting a lot harder to hold on to.

In his gripping debut, Zane Lovitt takes us on a journey through the human psyche via the seamy criminal underworld of crooked minds and amoral lives. Hardboiled and darkly funny, THE MIDNIGHT PROMISE is detective story with a difference.

Zane Lovitt has a Masters in Screenwriting and a Juris Doctor degree, both from the University of Melbourne. He worked internationally as a documentary filmmaker before turning his hand to crime fiction, and his stories have since appeared in anthologies and magazines.