Review
'Connolly is a master of suggestion, creating mood and suspense with ease, and unflinchingly presents a hard-eyed look at the horrors that can lurk in quiet, rustic settings.' -- Publishers Weekly 'Seldom has a thriller writer been so adept at turning the screw yet further and evoking a sense of awful dread among his landscapes and tormented characters. Colourful but visceral grand guignol, and definitely not to be read at night.' -- Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian on THE BLACK ANGEL 'Connolly has made a name for himself specialising in darkness, and THE BLACK ANGEL is no exception. Five Star.' -- Daily Mirror on THE BLACK ANGEL 'Connolly has virtually no match when it comes to chilling his readers.' -- Daily Express on THE BLACK ANGEL 'There is a precision to the horrors ... that make them one of the few sequences to have found anything interesting to say about serial killers since Thomas Harris.' -- Independent on THE BLACK ANGEL
Product Description
Daniel Clay, a once-respected psychiatist, has been missing for years following revelations about harm done to the children in his care. Believing him dead, his daughter Rebecca has tried to come to terms with her father's legacy, but her fragile peace is about to be shattered. Someone is asking questions about Daniel Clay, someone who does not believe that he is dead: the revenger Merrick, a father and a killer obsessed with discovering the truth about his own daughter's disappearance. Private detective Charlie Parker is hired to make Merrick go away, but Merrick will not be stopped. Soon Parker finds himself trapped between those who want the truth about Daniel Clay to be revealed, and those who want it to remain hidden at all costs. But there are other forces at work here. Someone is funding Merrick's hunt, a ghost from Parker's past. And Merrick's actions have drawn others from the shadows, half-glimpsed figures intent upon their own form of revenge, pale wraiths drifting through the ranks of the unquiet dead. The Hollow Men have come ...
