En la tercera novela de su saga del detective Charlie "Bird" Parker, John Connolly vuelve a utilizar su estilo habitual para narrar una histora descarnada, llena de violencia, sangre y crueldad, así como momentos de oscura introspección del protagonista. Muy similar a las anteriores novelas y, a veces, se aprecia la utilización por el autor de un esquema demasiado fijo e inamovible para sus obras y que se repite, al menos, en las tres primeras de la saga. Aceptable y entretenida pero no aporta nada nuevo a la saga: ni el personaje evoluciona ni la narración mejora, aunque tampoco empeora, sino que todo se mantiene como en la primera novela. ( )

Compelling page turner about a truly evil religous sect. Main character is complex with his own issues. Great fun. ( )

After reading this I wonder if I should start believing in dark angels.... ( )

Story is creepy not just because of spiders, but also because of a fictonal Persson family in Aroostook Maine where my Pierson/Persson family actually came from. Apocalypse. ( )

The body of Grace Peltier, a brilliant Ph.D. candidate, is found in the front seat of her car on a back road in northern Maine. No one wants to believe it was suicide -- not her father, not former U.S. senator Jack Mercier, and not private detective Charlie Parker, who has been hired to investigate the young woman's untimely death.
But when a mass grave is accidentally discovered nearby, revealing the grim truth behind the disappearance of a religious community known as the Aroostook Baptists, Parker realizes that their deaths and the violent passing of Grace Peltier are part of the same mystery, one that has its roots in her family history and in the origins of the shadowy organization known as the Fellowship. Soon Parker is drawn into the dark world of this zealous religious group that has already consumed every person who has dared confront it. When a relic is discovered, one capable of linking the Fellowship to the slaughter of the Aroostook Baptists, Parker is forced into violent conflict with the Fellowship and its enigmatic leader. Haunted by the ghost of a small boy and tormented by the demonic killer known as Mr. Pudd, Parker is forced to fight for his lover, his friends...and his very soul. ( )