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Monday, December 14, 2015

Book Review: Angels Burning

 Angels Burning
Title: Angels Burning

Author: Tawni O'Dell

Stars: 5 out of 5

Review:
As a retired criminal investigator I enjoy reading  crime mysteries and this is one of the  best I have read in a while. I was born and raised in a coal mining area and the author's verbal description, of the initial crime scene, took me back to my childhood. I could see and smell what was being described like I was there. Dove Carnahan, the Chief of Police, has a brutal murder to resolve and has a take no prisoners mindset in doing her job. Her mother was murdered 35 years previously so this case hits close to home. You will have to read to the end to grasp the stunning finale and digest it. Does justice always wear a blindfold?
 
I gave this book a five star rating.

I received an ARC from Netgalley for my unbiased review.
 
Synopsis:
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Oprah Book Club pick Back Roads comes this fast-paced literary thriller about a small town police chief who’s forced to dig into her own shadowy past as she investigates the murder of a teenage girl.

On the surface, Chief Dove Carnahan is a true trailblazer who would do anything to protect the rural Pennsylvanian countryside where she has lived all fifty of her years. Traditional and proud of her blue-collar sensibilities, Dove is loved by her community. But beneath her badge lies a dark and self-destructive streak, fed by a secret she has kept since she was sixteen.

When a girl is beaten to death, her body tossed down a fiery sinkhole in an abandoned coal town, Dove is faced with solving the worst crime of her law enforcement career. She identifies the girl as a daughter of the Truly family, a notoriously irascible dynasty of rednecks and petty criminals.

During her investigation, the man convicted of killing Dove’s mother years earlier is released from prison. Still proclaiming his innocence, he approaches Dove with a startling accusation and a chilling threat that forces her to face the parallels between her own family’s trauma and that of the Trulys.

With countless accolades to her credit, author Tawni O’Dell writes with the “fearless insights” (The New York Times Book Review) she brought to the page in Back Roads and One of Us. In this new, masterfully told psychological thriller, the past and present collide to reveal the extent some will go to escape their fate, and in turn, the crimes committed to push them back to where they began.
 
Paperback, 288 pages
Expected publication: January 5th 2016 by Gallery Books 
 
About The Author:
 Tawni O'Dell
Tawni O'Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of Fragile Beasts, Sister Mine, Coal Run, and Back Roads, which was an Oprah's Book Club pick and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. Tawni's screen adaptation of Back Roads is currently in development to be made into a film with Adrian Lyne set to direct. Her work has been translated into 15 languages and been published in over 30 countries.

Tawni was born and raised in the coal-mining region of western Pennsylvania, the territory she writes about with such striking authenticity. She graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in journalism and spent many years living in the Chicago area before moving back to Pennsylvania where she now lives with her two children.
 
  

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