The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison

Doyle who is recently returned from the war and finds himself a flatmate and assistant to the sleuthing Crow. Watson is played by the eccentric surgeon Dr. His character comes complete with huge wings and the astute observation and deduction skills readers would expect. Here, in this alternate London, Sherlock Holmes is envisioned as an Angel named Crow. Classic elements of Sherlock Holmes set into a fantastical fantasy world inhabited by Angels, Vampires, and Hellhounds. Here, a madman treads the streets at night named Jack the Ripper. Set in an alternate Victorian London, THE ANGEL OF THE CROWS by Katherine Addison re-imagines classic Sherlock Holmes only this world is inhabited by angels, vampires, and werewolves. The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addisonįiction / Fantasy / Historical / Sherlock Holmes Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of this London too. And human beings remain human, with all their kindness and greed and passions and murderous intent. 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. 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. These are not the characters you think they are.

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. She lives, with spouse, cats, and books, somewhere near Madison, Wisconsin.I received a complimentary ARC from the publisher, courtesy of NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review. You can find her on Patreon as pennyvixen. She is adjunct faculty for Ashland University's low-residency MFA program. Her work has been translated into Russian, Japanese, Chinese, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Czech. The Angel of the Crows was nominated for the 2021 Locus Award. The Goblin Emperor won the 2015 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was a finalist for the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Award.

She has published more than fifty short stories, seven solo novels, and three collaborations with her friend Elizabeth Bear.

Despite being summa cum laude, none of her degrees is of the slightest use to her in either her day job or her writing, which she feels is an object lesson for us all. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. from Case Western Reserve University, her M.A. She was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one of the three secret cities of the Manhattan Project.

Sarah Monette and Katherine Addison are the same person.