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Falling Angel

(1978)
(The first book in the Falling Angel series)
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Awards
1979 Edgar Award for Best First Novel (nominee)

Filmed as Angel Heart, by Alan Parker, a crime novel in which a New York detective becomes embroiled in a nightmare of voodoo and black magic when a missing-persons case he accepts develops into a mysterious murder investigation.


Genre: Horror

Praise for this book

"A spellbinding adventure in suspense that rollercoasters the reader toward and ending that is the equivalent of hitting a brick wall at 90mph. This is a book you don't walk away from." - Richard Brautigan

"The strongest crossbreeding of cop fiction and the supernatural since Falling Angel. An uncommonly powerful novel." - Ramsey Campbell

"A terrific book...I've never read anything remotely like it. Trying to imagine what must have happened if Raymond Chandler had written The Exorcist is as close as I can come." - Stephen King


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