The Black Angel by John Connolly

Monopoly Book Challenge - Pacific Avenue - A book by an author whose first or last initial can be found in "PACIFIC"
Series

After reading as far as I could in the Lady Darby series I returned to the John Connolly series starring Charlie Parker. This is a series that Bookworm and I started during our road trips, primarily on the 20+ hour drive to Florida every year. We no longer do that trip and well, with the pandemic we are doing no trips, sadly.

This one (5th in the series) was a struggle with the supernatural forces of good and evil. Supernatural/paranormal is not a fav of mine, so its a good thing I still like Charlie Parker and his snarky sense of humor.

There was also a ton of research on, well on a lot of things including the Book of Enoch and the origin of demons and fallen angels, and the Sedlec Ossuary (which I did find fascinatingly creepy!) 

Overall I felt a little lost and overwhelmed with all the details and the supernatural aspects. Here's hoping the 6th book in the series is better!

Summary from Goodreads: When a young woman disappears from the streets of New York City, ties of friendship and blood inevitably draw ingenious, tortured detective Charlie Parker into the search. Soon he discovers links to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and to the myth of an object known as the Black Angel -- considered by evil men to be beyond priceless. But the Black Angel is not a legend. It is real. It lives. It dreams. And the mystery of its existence may contain the secret of Parker's own origins.