This begins and culminates in one of the most extraordinary places in the world, an ossuary in the Czech Republic that is completely decorated with human bones. I was privileged to visit it with the author himself, an awesome experience. This chilling thriller concerns sinister people who collect sinister art for sinister reasons. It’s violent, exciting stuff with a touch of the supernatural and a fair bit of horror. I rate him very highly.
Comparison: Stephen King, James Herbert, P J Tracy.
Similar this month: None but try Michael Marshall or Michael Cordy.
Maxim Jakubowski, a Lovereading expert voice says: Charlie Parker; the travails of a haunted American detective whose past always catches up with him as he hunts down fiendish killers. Poetic and sometimes supernatural ambience. THE REAPERS marks his latest appearance. THE LOVERS comes next in July.
Charlie Parker series:
1. Every Dead Thing
2. Dark Hollow
6. The Unquiet
7. The Reapers
8. The Lovers
10. The Burning Soul
15. A Game of Ghosts
17. A Book of Bones
18. The Dirty South
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Detective Charlie Parker returns with a complex new case - not to be missed for fans of Michael Connelly and Jeffery Deaver.
The Black Angel is not an object. The Black Angel is not a myth. The Black Angel lives.
A young woman goes missing from the streets of New York. Those who have taken her believe that nobody cares about her, and that no one will come looking for her. They are wrong. She is 'blood' to the killer Louis, the man who stands at the right hand of private detective Charlie Parker, and Louis will tear apart anyone who stands in the way of his attempts to find her.
But as Louis's violent search progresses, Parker comes to realize that the disappearance is part of an older mystery, one that is linked to an ornate church of bones in Eastern Europe, to the slaughter at a French monastery in 1944, and to the quest for a mythical prize that has been sought for centuries by evil men: the Black Angel.
Yet the Black Angel is more than a myth. It is conscious. It dreams. It is alive.
And men are not the only creatures that seek it . . .
The Black Angel features in the following genres: Fantasy, eBooks of the Month, Thriller and Suspense, Fiction, Recommendations
The Black Angel is available in Paperback
The Black Angel was written by John Connolly and published by Hodder an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton
The Black Angel has 512 pages
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