>2021/066: The Angel of the Crows -- Katherine Addison

2021/066: The Angel of the Crows -- Katherine Addison

“Crow is better since your advent. More. . . I hesitate to use the word ‘human,’ but less like a machine devoted to murder.” He looked at me, his gaze steady and his eyes very blue. “Less like someone who might Fall.” [loc. 8155]

London, 1888. A doctor returns from service in Afghanistan, wounded and without purpose. A friend introduces him to an unusual individual who is looking for someone to go halves on a flat in Baker Street. A partnership is born.

Perhaps it's not the partnership you're expecting: the doctor's name is J H Doyle, and the person looking for a flatmate is a black-winged angel named Crow( no spoilers )