Danielle Trussoni is a New York Times and Internationally bestselling author of seven books. She has been the chair jurist of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and a book columnist for The New York Times Book Review. Her novels have been translated into over thirty languages. She has lived in Japan, England, Bulgaria, France, The United States and Mexico. She currently lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with her family.
"What do you get whan an Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate and
critically acclaimed memoirist trolls for the same readers who
loved Dan Brown's search for the grail of best-sellerdom in the The
Da Vinci Code? In the case of Danielle Trussoni's Angelology, a
spellbinding quest novel. Move over, vampires. Dark angels are on
the horizon in Trussoni's hefty fiction debut...She offers up
intriguing characters, lyrical nature descriptions, hidden clues,
secret codes, hidden manuscripts and treasure hunts, creating a
sumptuous and surprising novel."
-Jane Ciabattari for National Public Radio
"Angeology finds an almost hallucinatory power....fusing the
debased, the psychological, and the theological, into a single
rich, strange tableau that transmits a shock of truth."
-Time Magazine
"Breathtakingly imaginative.... Once you've entered Angelology's
enthralling world...you'll be thinking, 'Vampires? Who cares about
vampires?'"
-People Magazine
"An elegantly ambitious archival thriller in which knowledge dwells
in the secret underground places, labyrinthine libraries and
overlooked artifacts that have been hallmarks of the genre from The
Name of Rose and Possession to Angels and Demons and The Historian.
Angelology is richly allusive and vividly staged with
widescreen-ready visuals, a dewy but adaptable heroine and a
dashingly cruel villain.... Sensual and intelligent, Angelology is
a terrifically clever thriller-more Eco than Brown, without the
cloudy sentimentalism of New Age encomiums or Catholic treatises.
It makes no apologies for its devices, and none are necessary. How
else would it be possible to bring together the angels of the Bible
and Apocrypha, the myth of Orpheus, Bulgarian geography, medieval
monastics, the Rockefellers, Nazis, nuns and musicology? And how
splendid that it has happened."
-New York Times Book Review
"Beautiful, powerful, cruel, and avaricious, the half-human,
half-angel Nephilim have thrived for centuries by instilling fear
among humans, instigating war, and infiltrating the most powerful
and influential families of history. Only a secret group of
scholars, the Society of Angelologists, has endeavored to combat
the spread of evil generated by Nephilim. Now, a strange affliction
is destroying the Nephilim, and the cure is rumored to be an
ancient artifact of great power. Sister Evangeline of the St. Rose
Convent discovers an archived letter regarding the artifact's
location and is thrust into the race to locate the artifact before
the Nephilim do. She uncovers her family's past as high- ranking
angelologists, and their secrets assist in her dangerous hunt.
Trussoni, author of the acclaimed memoir Falling Through the Earth,
makes an impressive fiction debut with this engrossing and
fascinating tale. With captivating characters and the scholarly
blending of biblical and mythical lore, this will be popular for
fans of such historical thrillers as Kate Mosse's Labyrinth or
Katherine Neville's The Eight. Sony Pictures Entertainment has
purchased the film rights."
--STARRED Library Journal
"Critically acclaimed memoirist Trussoni (Falling Through The
Earth, 2006) breaks into the fiction market in a big way with an
epic fantasy that combines a rich mythology with some Da Vinci
Code-style treasure-hunting.
The contest between good and evil is waged not in the heavens but
here on Earth, between warring factions of biblical scholars and
heavenly hosts. The unusual central character is Sister Evangeline,
a 23-year-old nun at St. Rose Convent outside New York City. In the
course of her work, she stumbles across a mislaid correspondence
between philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller and the convent's
founding abbess concerning an astonishing 1943 discovery in the
mountains of Greece. Simultaneously, the book introduces Percival
Grigori, a critically ill, once-winged member of one of the most
powerful families in an ancient race of beings born of a union
between fallen angels and human beings: the Nephilim. These
parasitic creatures, the "giants" referred to in the sixth chapter
of Genesis, have engaged in spiritual warfare for generations with
the Society of Angelologists, a group that included Evangeline's
parents. "It has been one continuous struggle from the very
beginning," says one of Evangeline's comrades- in-arms. "St. Thomas
Aquinas believed that the dark angels fell within twenty seconds of
creation-their evil nature cracked the perfection of the universe
almost instantly, leaving a terrible fissure between good and
evil." As Evangeline and Grigori are drawn into conflict over
control of a powerful artifact, the lyre of the mythical Orpheus,
Trussoni constructs a marathon narrative arc, ending the volume
with a satisfying, if startling, transformation. A film adaptation
and a sequel are already waiting in the wings.
An ambitious adventure story with enough literary heft and
religious fervor to satisfy anyone able to embrace its imaginative
conceits and Byzantine plot.
--Kirkus Reviews
"A richly detailed, brilliantly conceived work that opens a golden
door into another world-or, even more alluringly, another
sphere."
--Lincoln Child
"Danielle Trussoni has written a great, cracking thunderbolt of a
story. Angelology is an exquisitely crafted adventure into untold
realms of imagination, religion, and history. Meticulous in its
research and delicious in its execution, the novel weaves Western
theology together with ancient myth in a way that will make readers
question what they think they know about angels. A triumph."
--Katherine Howe, author of The Physick Book of Deliverance
Dane
"Angelology is everything a reader wants . . . a clever, fast-paced
thriller with a strong sense of place and beguiling, emotionally
engaging characters [and] a skillful, satisfying history. . . . A
pleasure from start to finish . . . A wonderful achievement."
--Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth
"Angelology by Danielle Trussoni is a thrilling, gorgeous read.
Atmospheric, beguiling, and-if you'll pardon the pun-diabolically
good." --Raymond Khoury, author of The Last Templar and
Sanctuary
"Angelology lets loose the ancient fallen angels to the modern
world with devastating results. Trussoni has written a holy
thriller that will arrest your attention from the opening pages and
not let go till its mysteries take wing."
--Keith Donohue, author of The Stolen Child and Angels of
Destruction
"Danielle Trussoni creates a gorgeous gothic world for the reader,
where the people who surround us are not what they seem, and
stories are unveiled as more truth than fable. This is a book that
resonates as both haunting and holy. A must read."
--Brunonia Barry, author of The Lace Reader
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