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.
Key facts about The Black Angel
The Black Angel is a novel by John Connolly. Readers have had it since 2005. It runs to 579 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Black Angel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780743487863 to find the main one.
The Black Angel is book 6 of 25 in the Charlie Parker series. The series has 25 published books. However, the series starts with Every Dead Thing (1999). A River Red with Blood is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 7 May 2026.
Additionally, John Connolly writes The Book of Lost Things, Samuel Johnson and Chronicles of the Invaders as separate series. Those series sit on our supernatural crime, fantasy and young adult shelves. Meanwhile, A River Red with Blood is the latest published John Connolly book on file, from 7 May 2026.
About John Connolly
John Connolly is an Irish novelist best known for the Charlie Parker series, which follows a former NYPD detective turned private investigator in Maine and blends hardboiled crime plotting with supernatural horror -- ghosts, ancient evils, and a recurring sense that Parker's cases are connected to something larger and darker than ordinary crime. See every John Connolly book in order.
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