The City of Broken Angels | A Veronica Lakewood Mystery Audiobook

📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month) https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales 🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password. https://nocturnaltalespodcast.com Los Angeles after midnight. The white buildings turn grey, the palm trees turn black, and the city finally stops pretending. Veronica Lakewood likes it better that way. At least now it is being honest, she says. She and Arthur have left a party in Beverly Hills shortly before twelve and stopped at an all-night grill on the corner, because the coffee is bad and the company is interesting. Two men come in. The lights go out. When they come back on, a police officer and a young woman are dead on the floor — and the girl has spent her last breath on three words that nobody in this story will ever be able to finish for her. By morning Veronica's photograph is on the front page of the Examiner, and a good many powerful people in this town would very much prefer that she stop asking who the dead girl was. A newspaperman who is always at the scene before the police. A detective who has been waiting three years for one particular arrest. A house above Mulholland with nobody living in it. And four young women, only one of whom ever got a headline — and only because somebody famous happened to be standing in the frame beside her. The City of Broken Angels is an original noir mystery about a beautiful place that is very good at not noticing things. ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS This is an original mystery written by Nocturnal Tales, inspired by the spirit of the great Golden Age crime writers and the Los Angeles noir tradition. The plot, characters and text are entirely our own creation. All characters and events are fictional. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied. 💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS The girl uses her last breath on three words, and nobody in the story ever finds out how the sentence ended. What do you think she was trying to say? 🕵️ 🕒 CHAPTERS 00:00 - Introduction 01:58 - Chapter One - After Midnight 09:52 - Chapter Two - The Morning Edition 18:13 - Chapter Three - The House Above Mulholland 27:40 - Chapter Four - The Blue Dahlia 35:48 - Chapter Five - The Man in the Photograph 43:27 - Chapter Six - Broken Angels 📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99 📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchase https://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383 🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF included https://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2 ❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS 📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales 🌐 Website — every story, free, no account needed https://nocturnaltalespodcast.com 📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenue https://rumble.com/c/c-7820714 ❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time support https://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales 💛 PayPal — one-time tip https://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod 🎧 Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848 🧾 CREDITS Written by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales. 🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS veronica lakewood mystery, 1940s los angeles noir audiobook, hollywood noir mystery, hardboiled detective audiobook, original noir mystery, police corruption story, missing girls mystery, film noir style audiobook, lady detective audiobook, full length mystery audiobook, golden age mystery audiobook, original mystery audiobook 🏷️ HASHTAGS #NocturnalTales #VeronicaLakewood #NoirMystery #HollywoodNoir #FullAudiobook #DetectiveFiction #Whodunnit #GoldenAgeMystery