Thicker Than Water
core novel 2008 Felix Castor
Record
| First published | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.14 (6,081 ratings, collected 2026-10-18) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781841496566 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
Old ghosts of different kinds come back to haunt Fix. Names and faces he thought he had left behind in Liverpool resurface in London, bringing Castor far more trouble than he had anticipated: childhood memories, family traumas, sins old and new, and a council estate that was meant to be a modern utopia until it turned into something like hell. Castor has stepped over the line this time, and he knows he will have to pay; the only question is how much. It is not the best of times, then, for an unwelcome confrontation with his holier-than-thou brother, Matthew, and just when he thinks things cannot get any worse, along come Father Gwillam and the Anathemata. The fourth Felix Castor novel.
Where it sits
- Universe: Felix Castor
- Series: Felix Castor core; position 4 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: M.R. Carey
Notes
- From the series record (Felix Castor): Mike Carey's five Felix Castor novels about a freelance exorcist in a London where the dead have risen.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Felix Castor: position 4 of 6: previous Dead Men's Boots (2007) · next The Naming of the Beasts (2009)
- Internal chronology, within Felix Castor: position 4 of 5: previous Dead Men's Boots (2007) · next The Naming of the Beasts (2009)
Sources
- Risingshadow (series listing)
- Civilian Reader (Orbit reissue announcement and publisher synopsis)
- Sacramento Public Library catalogue (Orbit 2009 edition)
- Orbit (publisher description, via Worlds Without End)
- Washoe County Library catalogue (Orbit UK edition)
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