**edited 01/29/14 
 Urban fantasy protagonists aren't usually angelic, and in all senses but the literal, neither is Bobby Dollar, a.k.a. Doloriel, angel of the Lord. But Bobby Dollar is basically a defence attorney, and when the trial is over your eternal fate, you want the most fiendishly jesuitical lawyer you can get. In Bobby's world, the judging of the soul turns out to be a very literal process: after you die, a demonic prosecutor and an angelic defender turn up to bluster and bamboozle the judge over your final destination. For Bobby, watching a soul be upgraded to Heaven or banished to Hell is part of the standard work day. What isn't quite so everyday is the soul apparently considering itself to be ROR (released on its own reconnaissance) and vanishing from court. Of course, Bobby Dollar is the lucky angel to turn up on that particular case. All too soon, souls are disappearing everywhere, a demon is murdered, a precious artefact has vanished, and Bobby Dollar is in the centre of the frame. Down these mean streets an angel must go who is trying quite hard to be neither tarnished nor afraid...and not quite managing either. 
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