The Mona Lisa Sacrifice

“Even angels have to make a living these days.”

With this dry observance Peter Darbyshire introduces us to Cross, a man who has lived thousands of years, though he’d prefer not to have, and who is now hunting angels in a Barcelona filled with tourists, phone cameras and deep mystery.

The Mona Lisa Sacrifice is a layered supernatural thriller, filled with history, magic and beloved characters. When an angel promises to deliver Judas, a forgotten god of a forgotten people, to Cross for revenge if he can find the real Mona Lisa, a cascading set of mysteries involving a sisterhood of gorgons, Alice from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Morgana le Fay and renegade angels is set in motion. Everything hangs in the balance. Even the fate of the world.

AUTHOR

Peter Darbyshire

Peter Darbyshire’s work has appeared in publications across North America. His novel Please won the KM Hunter Artist Award for Literature and the ReLit Award for Best Novel, and was featured on CTV. His novel The Warhol Gang received rave reviews across Canada and generally disturbed people. He also publishes a series of spec-fic novels under the alias Peter Roman. Darbyshire lives in a safehouse outside Vancouver.

Reviews

“ltpgtSweeps you up with its gallows humour whether youre revelling in the pleasures of twofisted angelpunching action or the cleverly rendered languageltpgt”
– Quill amp Quire

“ltpgtA deliriously unhinged roller coaster of a novel blending fantasy history horror and humour with the aplomb of an overfull blender but all of it smarter than it truly has any right or need to be ltpgt”
– National Post