Katherine Addison, author of The Goblin Emperor, returns with The
Angel of the Crows, a fantasy novel of alternate 1880s London, where
killers stalk the night and the ultimate power is naming.
This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you
think they are. This is not the book you are expecting.
In an alternate 1880s London, angels inhabit every public building, and
vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings in a
well-regulated truce. A fantastic utopia, except for a few things:
Angels can Fall, and that Fall is like a nuclear bomb in both the
physical and metaphysical worlds. And human beings remain human, with
all their kindness and greed and passions and murderous intent.
Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of this London too. But this London
has an Angel. The Angel of the Crows.