The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

by Janice Hallett

First published 2023

Amanda Bailey opens a safe deposit box and finds research documents that will change everything. The true crime author faces a choice: destroy the papers or take them to police. Bailey is writing about the Alperton Angels, a cult that convinced a teenage mother her newborn was the anti-Christ. The cult members died by suicide after police stopped their plan to kill the infant. Mother and child vanished into protective care. Now the baby has turned eighteen and can speak publicly. Bailey knows an interview will rescue her struggling career. But Oliver Menzies, a rival author with better connections, is hunting the same person. Bailey and Menzies must work together as they discover the accepted story about the Angels is false. The real truth is darker and more bizarre than anyone suspected. The Alperton Angels story continues to unfold in ways neither author expected.

Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, adult-fiction, thriller, true-crime

Vibes: atmospheric, dark, fast-paced, gripping, suspenseful, thought-provoking

Tropes: cat-and-mouse-game, rivals-to-allies, truth-is-stranger-than-fiction, unreliable-narrator

Setting: Alperton

495 pages · Paperback · Viper

Content warnings: child-abuse, murder, suicide

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