I loved every scene with Parker’s sidekicks, Angel and Louis. The best scene is where the lost girl drags Brightwell down in the pit where she was buried alive to make him her eternal playmate.

There were some great scenes with Darina and Brightwell. I especially loved the bit about the spirit of the lost girl.īrightwell, a fallen angel Parker killed in a previous novel returns in The Wrath of Angels in the form of a young boy, the son of Darina, another fallen angel. I loved the story of how Harlan and his friend found the crashed plane in the Great North Woods.

There are so many things I loved about The Wrath of Angels. His novels are always original and like nothing I’ve ever read before. I thought it was really original and compelling. I loved the storyline of The Wrath of Angels. His use of language compelled me to read on and read on and read on. There are some beautiful turns of phrases in The Wrath of Angels. His writing takes on an almost literary quality that you don’t expect to come across in crime fiction. One of the things I love about Connolly is his prose style. The Wrath of Angels is the best Charlie Parker novel to date. The novel contains all the elements I’d expect a sinister object, fallen angels, Angel & Louis, the rabbi Epstein makes a return and Parker still works now and again in the bar The Great Bear. The Wrath of Angels is a staple Charlie Parker novel.

That’s no mean feat considering the novel is 400+ pages long. The Wrath of Angels lived up to my expectations by being brilliant and compelling. But as the rival forces descend upon this northern state, the woods prepare to meet them, for the forest depths hide other secrets. It lures others too: a beautiful, scarred woman with a taste for killing a silent child who remembers his own death and the serial killer known as the Collector, who sees in the list new lambs for his slaughter. The race to secure the prize draws in private detective Charlie Parker, a man who knows more than most about the nature of the terrible evil that seeks to impose itself on the world, and who fears that his own name may be on the list. Now a battle is about to commence between those who want the list to remain secret, and those for whom it represents a crucial weapon in the struggle against the forces of darkness. It is power: a list of names, a record of those who have struck a deal with the Devil. What the wreckage conceals is more important than money. There are no bodies, and no such plane has ever been reported missing, but men both good and evil have been seeking it for a long, long time. In the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of a plane is discovered.

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