The Angel Scroll
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley August 23, 2024
Author Penelope Holt
Distributor: Collective Ink
ISBN: 978-1-80341-569-7
Publisher: Roundfire Books/Collective Ink
Release Date: July 2024
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Fast paced The Angel Scroll is an intriguing story of dreams, love, obsession and destiny which is enthralling. The Scroll, referred to as the Angel Scroll offers new insight into the early Christian Community, along with some startling predictions. Three paintings, all of recent origin, are the embodiment of the message the Scroll contains. All three paintings have been either purchased for incredible sums of money, or stolen and have since disappeared.
Claire Lucas is grieving for her husband Jake, taken from her at an early age; she is an artist who since his death has been seeing visions, one dream so persistent and vivid she is completed to paint it. The work is the best she has ever done, painted in a haze of exhaustion and misery. It is definitely not for sale.
Richard Markham is an Antiquarian involved in the translation of the recently discovered Scroll, along with German Monk Father Karl Brandt and Myron Kushner, a Professor in Hebrew and Jewish Mysticism, each man experts in their chosen fields. The Vatican has reluctantly funded the purchase of the Scroll under the strict adjunct that the people working on the translation keep it a secret.
Claire’s visions have remained; the same vision that resulted in the stunning painting returning time and time again, along with others which are, she believes, related to the other two paintings and the tragic death of artists who painted them.
A whirlwind dash from America to Italy sees the unlikely trio putting their lives at risk to track down, not only the pictures, but the Scroll which is proving very confrontational for Claire, as well as Richard, both of whom are beginning to fall in love, both having lost their life partners, both cautious, hiding secrets and learning how to trust once again.
The Angel Scroll is a captivating read, with a definite flavour of Dan Brown in the mix, with a rich storyline that touches on religion, beliefs, mysticism and truth.