The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels: A Novel

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death and graphic violence.

Amanda takes Oliver to the location to which she believes the personal ad referred. They discover the painted symbol for Gabriel. Oliver talks about the antichrist predicting the end of days. After transcribing the audio file, Ellie questions whether Amanda should still be recording Oliver without telling him. She says that Amanda does not question Oliver’s supernatural theories.

Amanda emails Ellie, observing that two fictional works inspired by the Alperton Angels case include a character called Ashleigh and that neither includes an angel called Raphael. She texts Clive Badham, asking if Ashleigh is based on a real person, but he insists that she is purely fictional. Messaging Oliver, Amanda points out that Christopher Shenk (Raphael) had no known connection to the other angels. Oliver states that there must have been four angels, as there are four horsemen of the apocalypse.

Amanda interviews retired police sergeant Nikki Sayle. Nikki interviewed the first Holly in the 1990s after she reported Gabriel’s attempt to involve her in credit card fraud. Gabriel had told Holly that as an angel, her purpose was to wait until the antichrist was born and stop it from destroying the world.