I read this before, most likely more than a decade ago, but not quite close to its original release twenty years ago this year.

I reread Silk in December 2022: bookrastinating.com/user/TrendyWebAltar/comment/63706#anchor-63706

Murder of Angels is marketed as a sequel to Silk, but both novels are (literally) worlds apart and much of Silk is recounted that it may be just as accurate to call Murder of Angels the return of characters we first encountered in Silk.

Can one read this without reading Silk first? Maybe? But why would you?