Book 4

Close to the Ground

by Jeff Mariotte

Published 4 September 2000
Angel is taken in by a Hollywood studio boss who offers him a huge sum to chaperone his spoilt daughter. Angel takes on the task only to find she really is a brat. Worse still the girl has attracted a major, unidentifiable evil creature.

Book 6

Hollywood Noir

by Jeff Mariotte

Published 1 January 2001
Doyle, Angel and Cordelia are tracking down a cigarette girl named Betty McCoy. But they're not the only ones to do so. There's a new P.I. in town, Mike Slade. Angel and his troops find that their research leads them directly to Slade.

City Of Angels, No - City Of Angel! Based on the all-new TV series - Angel! If you thought Sunnydale was a notbed of vampiric and demonic activity, wait'll you see what's brewing in LA! Angel, Buffy's undead lover, has relocated to the City of Angels, where he (along with his partner; Doyle, a human/demon hybrid with second sight, and Cordelia Chase, from the Buffy TV series) bids to atone for his past sins by fighting the forces of darkness. In Surrogates, Angel faces his toughest case yet, a harrowing mystery centring on the disappearance of newborn children. As Angel digs deeper, he discovers a terrifying connection to the netherworlds, and a mommy demon with a serious need to breed!

Haunted

by Jeff Mariotte

Published 1 February 2002
An old dark house turns out to be home to something a good deal nastier than things that go bump in the night...An impoverished Cordelia jumps at the chance to win a ton of money by appearing on a 'Survivor' meets 'Real World' reality television show. She can't wait to supplement the meagre cash she makes from saving the world day in and day out. The catch? All she has to do is spend a week in a 'haunted' house, surviving all manner of evil doings staged by the producers. But a mind-numbing vision from The Powers That Be reveals to her that this house is in fact the staging ground for an event more gruesome and dangerous than anything the TV production crew can dream up: a real live ritual sacrifice to a demonic presence. Now Angel, Wesley and Gunn have to get themselves into the house in order to stop the ritual. And the only way in is by going through LA's most demonic law firm: Wolfram and Hart.

Sanctuary

by Jeff Mariotte

Published 1 April 2003
Of all the demon infested karaoke dives in all the dimensions in the universe they had to walk into Lorne's...During a brief respite from their active day jobs the employees at Angel Investigations find themselves frequenting Lorne's demon karaoke bar. But their moment of relaxation is cut short when a loud explosion draws them - and the rest of the bar's patrons - outside. The building opposite has become a towering inferno, but the conflagration is nothing more than a diversionary tactic to distract from a drive-by shooting. When the chaos subsides, Angel discovers that Fred is missing. It seems that she has been kidnapped, so the staff of Angel Investigations spring back into action. Angel, Lorne, Cordelia, Wesley and Gunn question everything on the scene. The good news is at least ten demons were direct eyewitnesses, but one problem emerges: Each tells a different version of events. It could have been gang warfare on monster territory, or Fred could have simply wandered home without saying goodbye. As they desperately try to track her down, one thing becomes clear; demons are far from reliable sources of information.

Endangered Species

by Nancy Holder and Jeff Mariotte

Published 31 December 1999
In the first-ever Angel hardcover novel, a twist of fate offers Angel the chance to atone for his years of evil once and for all -- but only at the cost of his own destruction. Courtesy of The Powers That Be, Cordelia Chase has grown used to her excruciatingly painful visions, but that doesn't mean that they leave her unmoved. So when her latest vision involves not an anonymous stranger in peril, but someone she knows, she finds it more than usually disturbing. Especially since the subject of her vision is Faith, the rogue slayer; whose recent incarceration in jail, it seems, is the least of her problems. Then one-time big game hunter Chaz Escobar shows up at Angel Investigations, asking for their help to track down his wife. Her name is Marianna -- and she's a vampire. Alone with her on a small and distant island, Escobar had been working to find a cure. Before he could succeed, however, she escaped him, and now he suspects that she is the creature who's been stalking Faith. But Escobar has a hidden agenda, and before long Angel, Cordy, Wesley and Gunn discover that his real aim is to rid the world of vampires -- all of them, forever; even those who possess a soul.
If Angel is willing to sacrifice himself in order to help the hunter achieve his goal, then his atonement will truly be complete. But before they can reach the artifact they require to complete their task, the two of them find that they themselves have become the prey, in a game controlled by beings of absolute evil -- the lawyers of Wolfram and Hart.

The Longest Night

by Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder, and Et Al

Published 10 February 2003
Hour by hour and evil by evil, this short story collection takes Angel and his colleagues one by one through one dramatic night. December 21 - the winter solstice. The time when the sun is at its weakest, and the longest night of the year. The undead equivalent of New Year's Eve, it's the night when those who live for the darkness all want to come out and party. Consequently it's a VERY busy night indeed for Angel Investigations. There may be no rest for the wicked -- but there's certainly no rest for those who are sworn to protect the world against them. THE LONGEST NIGHT follows the individual trials of Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn and newcomer Fred as they battle to keep the forces of evil at bay.

Solitary Man

by Jeff Mariotte

Published 1 December 2003
Widow Mildred Finster is a life-long fan of mystery and suspense. When she decides, at the tender age of 71, that she'd like to become a private detective herself, she knows there's more to sleuthing than is revealed in her favourite books. She has found a card for Angel Investigations and thinks the name sounds very sweet. After all, she loves angels and has a large collection of figurines. What could be more perfect? The staff of Angel investigations are hip-deep in their own personal problems, so when Mildred offers her services, they don't have much time for her. And when a truckload of antiquities from a local Mission is stolen and ransacked, they don't get too worked up over what is obviously a simple theft. But nothing in LA is that simple, and the arrival of some ruthless killers from overseas finally gets the gang's attention. Now they are followed at every turn by a well-meaning old lady, fighting off attacks from poltergeists, and trying to set their personal differences aside to defeat a supernatural foe before a centuries-old mystery reaches its final chapter.

The Angel Casefiles

by Nancy Holder and Jeff Mariotte

Published 1 June 2002
In the tradition of the bestselling Buffy Watcher's Guides, this is the official companion to the cult hit show, complete with exclusive interviews and 32 pages of full colour photos. This is the book that Angel fans have been waiting for: the first two seasons covered in fact-packed detail, with episode guides, behind-the-scenes secrets, interviews, quotes and profiles of characters, cast and crew. In a similar format to the much-praised Buffy the Vampire Slayer Watcher's Guides, The Angel Casefiles has some unique features of its own, with information arranged in the style of a case file from Angel Investigations and an exclusive introduction from series producer and scriptwriter Tim Minnear. With its darker adult tone and its themes of the lost and the dispossessed, Angel has firmly established an identity of its own. Now this essential guide enables viewers to follow their favourite vampire every step of the way on his sometimes rocky but always adventurous road to redemption.

Stranger to the Sun

by Jeff Mariotte

Published 1 June 2002
When Wesley opens a package that arrives at Angel Investigations by special delivery, he immediately falls into a coma. It's clear he's fallen victim to some kind of magic spell, and Angel sets off with Gunn to find out who or what could be behind the attack. No easy task, since it turns out that everyone who could possibly help them -- from magic-shop owners to the LAPD -- has been affected by the same supernatural slumber. Meanwhile, Cordelia uncovers a Vampire plot to plunge the Earth into constant darkness, so that the creatures of the night can assert their power without the fear of daylight. It's up to her to help prevent it...but she's alone with the still-unconscious Wesley, and as she tends him it becomes increasingly clear that he is in the throes of a terrifying nightmare. Unless she can rouse him it may be the end -- for him as well as the rest of humankind.

Love and Death

by Jeff Mariotte

Published 28 September 2004
A vigilante mob is killing demons in Los Angeles -- and they can't tell the bad from the good.; Incited by an outspoken radio host, a mob of vigilantes has descended Los Angeles intent on ridding the city of the demons which they believe have overrun it. To Angel and his fellow fighters of evil, the vigilante killers are more of a hindrance than a help. Intent on solving a grisly and harrowing murder, at first they fail to realise that the angry mob is becoming a serious issue -- let alone how much danger they themselves are in. Then Lorne is attacked and almost killed and Connor disappears. The mob isn't stopping to ask which demons are on the side of good and which are not. Or maybe they just don't care. Maybe anyone with a trace of demonic blood is fair game to them -- and that includes the vampire with a soul...

City of Angel

by Nancy Holder

Published 1 December 1999
EVERYONE'S GOT HIS DEMONS...For Angel, life as a vampire was a constant thrill. Power, danger, cool clothes (never getting old, also a plus). But in the end, it was all about the kill -- until he killed the wrong girl. "Gypsies, in my experience, are heavily into vengeance. They cursed me. Gave me back my soul. I had to live with everything I'd done and I had to live forever. It took another woman to show me that my endless life was worth living." Buffy the Vampire Slayer was Angel's first true love, but the relationship was doomed from the start -- a moment of true happiness would cause Angel to lose his soul forever. So he left -- Sunnydale, Buffy, and everything else meaningful to him. "Alive for 244 years, I thought I'd seen everything. Then I came to L.A." City of Angels. Run by powerful forces, agents of pure evil. It's a city hard on its human population. If Angel wants to save himself, he's going to have to save them...somehow. With the help of two unlikely allies -- a half-demon and a ex -- May Queen -- he's going to set up shop...And keep watch over his city.