Publisher's Synopsis
"Connolly creates those rarest of books - literate and beautifully written page turners" DAILY MAIL A young woman goes missing from the streets of New York. She is 'blood' to the killer Louis, the right-hand man of private detective Charlie Parker. As Louis' vengeful search progresses, Parker realises that the disappearance is part of an older mystery, one that is linked to an ornate church of bones in Eastern Europe, to the slaughter at a French monastery in 1944, and to the quest for a mythical prize that has been sought for centuries by evil men: the Black Angel. And men are not the only creatures that seek it...