Murder of Angels - Softcover

Tierney, Kathleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451459962 ISBN 13: 9780451459961

Publisher: Roc, 2004

Synopsis

Ten years after witnessing something unspeakable in an old Birmingham, Alabama, house, Daria Parker, a successful musician and addict, and Niki Ky, trapped in a world of schizophrenia, are drawn back together, when Niki begins to receive messages from her dead lover, Spyder Baxter, who warns her of her new role as a prophesied sorceress capable of opening a portal between worlds. Original.

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Review

"[Kiernan's] punk rock prose...makes "Angels" fly." -"Entertainment Weekly" "Lyrical and earthy, "Murder of Angels" is that rare book that gets everything right." -Charles de Lint "Kiernan's best book to date, joining her always prodigious gift for language with a wrenching, compelling story." -"Locus"

From Publishers Weekly
aReturning from "Touch the Dark" and "Claimed by Shadow," Cassie Palmer has finally become Pythia, the supernatural communityas all-knowing oracle. Sheas struggling with her new powers (such as shifting back and forth through time) and is stuck between good and evil factions of the paranormal community. Her main concern, though, is to figure out how to reverse a pesky spell that threatens her independence: the geis, once placed on her for protection, is now trying to bind her to the handsome master vampire, Mircea, with results detrimental to them both. The only solution is to find the fabled book that has the counterspellafind it in space and time. Cassieain her struggles between her passionate need for independence, her burgeoning feelings for Mircea and her conflicts with her new role as Pythiaais a well-rounded character, and the intensity and complexity of the plot puts her through her paces physically, emotionally and psychically.a
"[Kiernan's] punk rock prose...makes "Angels" fly." -"Entertainment Weekly" "Lyrical and earthy, "Murder of Angels" is that rare book that gets everything right." -Charles de Lint "Kiernan's best book to date, joining her always prodigious gift for language with a wrenching, compelling story." -"Locus"
From Publishers Weekly
?Returning from "Touch the Dark" and "Claimed by Shadow," Cassie Palmer has finally become Pythia, the supernatural community's all-knowing oracle. She's struggling with her new powers (such as shifting back and forth through time) and is stuck between good and evil factions of the paranormal community. Her main concern, though, is to figure out how to reverse a pesky spell that threatens her independence: the geis, once placed on her for protection, is now trying to bind her to the handsome master vampire, Mircea, with results detrimental to them both. The only solution is to find the fabled book that has the counterspell?find it in space and time. Cassie?in her struggles between her passionate need for independence, her burgeoning feelings for Mircea and her conflicts with her new role as Pythia?is a well-rounded character, and the intensity and complexity of the plot puts her through her paces physically, emotionally and psychically.?
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About the Author

Caitlin R. Kiernan is the author of nine novels, including Silk, Threshold, Low Red Moon, Murder of Angels, Daughter of Hounds, and The Red Tree. Her award-winning short fiction has been collected in six volumes, including Tales of Pain and Wonder; To Charles Fort, With Love; Alabaster; and, most recently, A is for Alien. She has also published two volumes of erotica, Frog Toes and Tentacles and Tales from the Woeful Platypus. Trained as a vertebrate paleontologist, she currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Edition details

• Publisher: Roc
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451459962
• ISBN 13: 9780451459961
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352