The Black Angel
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Assisting a long-time friend in a search for a kidnapped woman, detective Charlie Parker links the abduction to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and the myth of an object known as the Black Angel. By the author of Nocturnes. 60,000 first printing.
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22 primary books#5 in Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker is a 22-book series with 22 released primary works first released in 1995 with contributions by John Connolly, Connie Shelton, and connolly-john.
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Another excellent instalment of the Charlie Parker series. I didn't think this series could get any darker but here we are. It does plod a little at times, there are huge chunks about some of the darker elements of European history and those chunks do feel like you are reading another book (intentionally) BUT they are important to the mythology of the story.
I did really enjoy this, in a way it's more like the first CP novel and it does lack the tension and cohesion of the previous 3 novels, the pace is a lot slower, there's no build up to a conclusion and you just sort of arrive at the end, then it's all over in 4 pages. It really does sort of feel like this is the start of something new.... Happy ending for someone but not Charlie.
