A Quiet Belief in Angels (Audiobook)

from miyurose

This book was a wonderful surprise. It had me from the open: 'Rumor, hearsay, folklore. Whichever way it laid down to rest or came up for air, rumor had it that a white feather indicated the visitation of an angel. On the morning of Wednesday, July twelfth, 1939, I saw one, long and slender and u...

from MikeFinn

f Steinbeck had ever written a crime novel, it might have been as good as this. If Richard Russo's name had been on the cover, I wouldn't have been at all surprised at the skill and energy within. Ellory's lyrical prose, elegant narrative structure, mystical imagination and sheer humanity raised ...

from miyurose

This book was a wonderful surprise. It had me from the open: 'Rumor, hearsay, folklore. Whichever way it laid down to rest or came up for air, rumor had it that a white feather indicated the visitation of an angel. On the morning of Wednesday, July twelfth, 1939, I saw one, long and slender and u...

from delphica

This is a very well-written, atmospheric crime novel, and my only complaint is that it's so atmospheric that at times I couldn't see the story through the atmosphere. People, we need to focus. Overall, though, it's nifty. Small rural town, Georgia, 1940s, young girls are being murdered. One of th...

from smik

Reading a novel in a matter of a couple of days is rare for me, but this morning I had 150 pages to go, and fairly galloped through it to find out whether what I thought had happened was what did happen. Just for the record, I was partly right, but got a lot wrong, despite the clues that Ellory l...