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The Monsters We Are

The Monsters We Are

by D. R. Long
Noir Detective
Hard Boiled Mystery

Description

The rain never stops in Nightmare City. Looking for a hard-boiled murder mystery with teeth? Meet Lou Fisk, a PI who can literally see through lies in a city full of monsters and rain. Five years after the cloaks fail and the monsters beneath humanity step into the light, private investigator Lou Fisk has become the reluctant savior of Nightmare City. But the deeper he digs into Bridgework Industries, the company that promised unity through science, the more the city itself begins to bleed. *The Monsters We Are* fuses noir fatalism with bio-metaphysical horror. A slow burn about guilt, art, and the things we let ourselves become in pursuit of truth.

Tropes

Noir Detective
Animals as People
Morally Grey Protagonist
Corrupt City
Monsters

Emotions

Guilt
Slow Burn Tension

254 pages

Content Warnings

Violence
Murder
Body Horror

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