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Violence
Very heavy
Multiple murders; supernatural horror throughout; graphic violence; a young woman in danger
Language
Some
Some strong language
Sexual Content
Some
Some sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
The specific horror of a medieval object that has drawn violence across centuries; Parker's position as someone whose work intersects with forces that exceed ordinary criminal investigation
What this book is about
The search for a young woman leads Charlie Parker into a hunt for a medieval artifact called the Black Angel — a reliquary connected to the legend of fallen angels and followed by a series of deaths across America and Europe. John Connolly's fifth Charlie Parker novel is the most explicitly supernatural of the series to that point, tracing the artifact's history through centuries of violence and into the present investigation. Parker works alongside Angel and Louis in a thriller that operates simultaneously as crime fiction, horror, and something approaching religious mythology.
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fifth Charlie Parker novel by John Connolly; the most supernatural entry to this point
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