J Nelson Leith

On the Head of a Pin J Nelson Leith

When "Sufi chick" Núr Lucas hires him to locate the angel of despair, private detective Charles Roland Oliver thinks he's taking another safe and easy missing-person case. But he soon finds himself swept into the otherworldly schemes of the Seven Sins, the emotional manipulation of his own client, and the temptations of a young fallen angel who clues him in to the secret for cheating Death Herself. On The Head Of A Pin is a paranormal detective novella set in the modern day, but with a sexy retro attitude and literary consciousness. Drawing on inspirations as disparate as film noir, quantum physics, Medieval theology, and Gilligan's Island, Pin pulls the reader through a two-fisted, hardboiled investigation into the family intrigues of the semi-divine, a mystery that dredges up the conflict of individual and archetype, the role of literature in defining the soul, the decadence of social progress, and the basic metaphysical nature of reality.