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The Black Angel: Private Investigator Charlie Parker hunts evil in the fifth book in the globally bestselling series
John Connolly
Charlie Parker Thriller, Fiction, Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense
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Hodder Paperbacks
- Paperback Mar 1, 2010 | 9781444704723 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Feb 10, 2012 | 9781444741827 | RRP $37.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jun 25, 2009 | 9781848940345 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback Mar 1, 2010 | 9781444704723 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Feb 10, 2012 | 9781444741827 | RRP $37.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jun 25, 2009 | 9781848940345 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Imprint
Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback Mar 1, 2010 | 9781444704723 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Feb 10, 2012 | 9781444741827 | RRP $37.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jun 25, 2009 | 9781848940345 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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The terrifying thriller from the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Lovers
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 . . .
Praise for The Black Angel: Private Investigator Charlie Parker hunts evil in the fifth book in the globally bestselling series
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Colourful but visceral grand guignol, and definitely not to be read at night. - Guardian
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A Gothic horror story and a well-paced thriller. John Connolly writes beautifully ... and his violent set pieces are satisfyingly exciting and vibrantly realised. - Myles McWeeney, Irish Independent
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Stylishly literate gore and terror - Kirkus Reviews
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There is a precision to the horrors that make them one of the few sequences to have found anything interesting to say about serial killers since Thomas Harris. - Independent
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Dark and powerful yet beautifully written - Big Issue
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John Connolly has taken his serial hero and changed him from an ex-cop turned private eye to a supernatural detective whose own ancestry is as murky as it is fascinating. It's another bestseller of course. - Mark Timlin, Independent on Sunday
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Private detective Charlie Parker chases strung out prostitutes and ossuary-building killers in a page-turner that harks back to the fall of the rebel angels.. The action stays both speedy and gruesome - Time Out
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John Connolly
John Connolly is author of the Charlie Parker mysteries, The Book of Lost Things, the Samuel Johnson novels for young adults and, with his partner, Jennifer Ridyard, co-author of the Chronicles of the Invaders. John Connolly's debut - EVERY DEAD THING - introduced the character of Private Investigator Charlie Parker, and swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers. All his subsequent novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers. He was the winner of the 2016 CWA Short Story Dagger for On the Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier from NIGHT MUSIC: Nocturnes Vol 2.
In 2007 he was awarded the Irish Post Award for Literature. He was the first non-American writer to win the US Shamus award and the first Irish writer to win an Edgar award. BOOKS TO DIE FOR, which he edited with Declan Burke, was the winner of the 2013 Anthony, Agatha and Macavity awards for Best Non-Fiction work.
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