"Brilliant...a delightful mix of comic novel and mystery...a deeper imaginative level than almost any mystery writer—much less comic mystery writer—I’ve ever encountered. City of Angles delivers a wallop with its ending...ought to be made immediately into a movie. Nothing like this has come along to my knowledge since Robert Altman’s The Player."
Harold Fickett, ScenesMedia
And The New York Post has just named it a Best New Book!
"Akin to Tom Wolfe...Like Wolfe, he manages to do it with a light, humorous touch...What an entertaining book!"
Todd Seavey, SpliceToday
"Hard to put down" Daniel Kennelly, City Journal
"A fascinating cast of characters...The author has accomplished something that the literature and mystery world has been missing for a long time. Our society, so overwhelmed with ideology and wokeness, has forgotten how to have fun, experience joy and humor. Leaf has not only brought out the varied aspects of what it means to be human—the contradictions and delusions, as well as the joys—but has also written a subtle social commentary on the absurdity, and sadness, of the present times.”
Emina Melonic, Religion & Liberty
“Like Tom Wolfe......a fast-paced comic thriller...The novel's cast of characters is large but deftly drawn...A rollicking takedown of City of Angels and a study of culture: the tending – or neglect – of the soil of humanity.”
Jane Scharl, Modern Age Journal
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