Servant of the Bones

A new saga begins, a major departure for the incomparable Anne Rice. Having created fantastic universes of vampires and witches, having chronicled the exploits of Lestat and the Mayfairs, she carries us now into new realms of the occult, the mystical, and the magical, and into the presence - now and through the centuries - of a dark and luminous new hero: the powerful, witty, smiling Azriel, Servant of the Bones. He is ghost, demon, angel - in love with the good, in thrall to the evil. He pours out his heart to us, telling his astonishing story when he finds himself - in our own time, in New York City - a dazed witness to the murder of a young girl called Esther and inexplicably obsessed by the desire to avenge her. 387 pages.