First Impressions: The Angel Maker

While Alex North’s third novel, The Angel Maker, is due out on February 28th, the chapter sampler available on NetGalley offers an engrossing preview of the paths this book will take. In a prologue and seven quick chapters, we get a feel for the array of characters, different crimes that have taken places years apart, and how it all might be connected.

There are themes of knowing your future, being irreparably changed by a gruesome attack, and determining whether to trust your own instincts and desires.

I loved both of Alex North’s previous novels, and it looks like The Angel Maker will be another stellar addition to his growing catalogue.

Official Summary

This excerpt from The Angel Maker by Alex North contains the first section of the book.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Whisper Man and The Shadows comes a dark, suspenseful new thriller about the mysteries of fate, the unbreakable bond of siblings, and a notorious serial killer who was said to know the future.

Growing up in a beautiful house in the English countryside, Katie Shaw lived a charmed life. At the cusp of graduation, she had big dreams, a devoted boyfriend, and a little brother she protected fiercely. Until the day a violent stranger changed the fate of her family forever.

Years later, still unable to live down the guilt surrounding what happened to her brother, Chris, and now with a child of her own to protect, Katie struggles to separate the real threats from the imagined. Then she gets the phone call: Chris has gone missing and needs his big sister once more.

Meanwhile, Detective Laurence Page is facing a particularly gruesome crime. A distinguished professor of fate and free will has been brutally murdered just hours after firing his staff. All the leads point back to two old cases: the gruesome attack on teenager Christopher Shaw, and the despicable crimes of a notorious serial killer who, legend had it, could see the future.

Get the Book

You can buy The Angel Maker here – it’s available as hardcover, ebook, and audiobook.

The Angel Maker by Alex North
Audience	Adult
Genre	Thriller
Setting	England
Original Publication Date	February 28, 2023

About the Author

Credit: Charlotte Graham

Alex North is the internationally bestselling author of The Angel Maker, The Whisper Man and The Shadows. He lives in Leeds, England, with his wife and son, and is a British crime writer who has previously published under another name.