Charlie Parker · Book 6
The Black Angel
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 579
- ISBN-13
- 9780743487863
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Black Angel (2005, 579 pages) is the fifth entry in the Charlie Parker series, sitting between Nocturnes and The Unquiet, as Parker's cases continue to draw in Louis and Angel -- his gay-couple allies who function as equal parts moral conscience and lethal muscle -- against Connolly's gothic, elegiac vision of Maine.
Its place in Charlie Parker
The Black Angel is book 6 in the Charlie Parker series. It follows Nocturnes. It is followed by The Unquiet. See the full Charlie Parker reading order.
Charlie Parker is a former NYPD detective turned private investigator whose wife and young daughter were murdered before the series begins -- a trauma that never fully recedes and that opens the door to the series' defining move: John Connolly writes hard-edged American crime fiction that is also, unapologetically, ghost story and horror. Parker is haunted, sometimes literally, by the dead he failed to save, and his cases increasingly brush up against something genuinely supernatural and ancient lurking behind…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780743487863