Detective Fiction

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Poor Jack. Life is slipping away from his control. He struggles with sobriety. His wife has found a new man, fifteen years younger. He takes an interest in another woman, but she doesn't exactly have him in her sights. So Jack does what any man would do. He finds escape in his new detective novel-wherein he is the main character. But soon, Jack must determine who is real: the people in his life or the characters in his book. Patrick Coyle is a triple-threat in the mesmerizing noir Detective Fiction as director, writer, and actor, adapting his stage play for the big screen. He portrays a man who has lost contact with intimacy to the point that he can communicate his feelings only via his budding detective potboiler. Coyle superbly delivers his lines like Martin Sheen possessed by a melancholy Jack Webb and moves his characters towards a harsh truth about those who want what they don't need and those who have what they don't deserve. - John Ignowski