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If Angels Fall

by Rick Mofina

Series: Reed-Sydowski (1)

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This book was a finalist for the 2001 Arthur Ellis Award for BEST FIRST NOVEL presented by the Crime Writers of Canada. Tom Reed is a crime reporter with the San Francisco Star, whose superb journalistic skills earned him a Pulitzer nomination. But years later Reed's life is coming apart. His editor wants him fired. His wife has left him to wrestle with his demons. Alone, Reed is tormented by the fear he may have caused the suicide of an innocent man suspected of murdering a two-year-old girl. Reed's friend on the case is legendary San Francisco Homicide Inspector, Walt Sydowski, who has one of California's highest clearance rates. He is also a lonely widower haunted by the fact he cannot solve the girl's heartbreaking death. Both men grapple with the past while they race the clock to learn the truth behind a several new abductions that have anguished the Bay Area, in this acclaimed thriller set in the late 1990s. If Angels Fall is the first book of the five-book Tom Reed-Walt Sydowski series. It is followed by Cold Fear, Blood of Others, No Way Back, and Be Mine.… (more)
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Angenehm furztrocken daherkommender Thriller über die Jagd nach einem Kindermörder und -entführer, in dem endlich, ENDLICH einmal keine einzige Zeile an irgendwelche nervigen und ausgelutschten Techtelmechtel zwischen Ermittler/in und Journalist/in (und welche Konstellationen es da noch gibt) verschwendet wird! Hallelujah! Stattdessen wird recherchiert und ermittelt, während den Protagonisten ihr Leben unter dem Hintern wegbricht und die Stimmung zunehmend gereizter wird. Zum Finale hin bin ich förmlich auf der Sofakante sitzend durch die Story gehechelt, da war nix mehr mit weglegen und abends weiterlesen. Selbst die relativ häufig zu findenden Tippfehler konnten da nix mehr ausbremsen. Klare Empfehlung für kleines Geld, die 89 Cent waren gut angelegt! ( )
  Horrortorte | May 17, 2019 |
Tom Reed, a reporter disgraced for his handling of a child abduction story a year ago, finds himself in the midst of a new child abduction story and hesitates to report his suspicions because of the prior debacle. But what he knows may be the key to stopping a child predator who’s set his sights on more children.

While the story holds the reader’s interest, the telling of the tale is largely expositional and there’s some frustratingly ad nauseam repetition. Unfortunately, there is no suspense; there are no unexpected plot twists. Astute readers will easily see what’s coming, especially since several of the characters fall victim to “too dumb to live” moments that allow the bad thing to happen. And with all the perpetrators identified early on, there’s no whodunit suspense in this disturbingly dark tale of children in danger. ( )
  jfe16 | Jun 11, 2018 |
Well done thriller with excellent character development ( )
  nospi | Feb 7, 2016 |
I would probably have liked this book better if I had started the series with it instead of working backwards. It seemed to drag, but I think that was because I knew what was coming, and was anxious to get there.

The writing and editing are greatly improved in the other books I've read. ( )
  busyreadin | Jan 2, 2015 |
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This book was a finalist for the 2001 Arthur Ellis Award for BEST FIRST NOVEL presented by the Crime Writers of Canada. Tom Reed is a crime reporter with the San Francisco Star, whose superb journalistic skills earned him a Pulitzer nomination. But years later Reed's life is coming apart. His editor wants him fired. His wife has left him to wrestle with his demons. Alone, Reed is tormented by the fear he may have caused the suicide of an innocent man suspected of murdering a two-year-old girl. Reed's friend on the case is legendary San Francisco Homicide Inspector, Walt Sydowski, who has one of California's highest clearance rates. He is also a lonely widower haunted by the fact he cannot solve the girl's heartbreaking death. Both men grapple with the past while they race the clock to learn the truth behind a several new abductions that have anguished the Bay Area, in this acclaimed thriller set in the late 1990s. If Angels Fall is the first book of the five-book Tom Reed-Walt Sydowski series. It is followed by Cold Fear, Blood of Others, No Way Back, and Be Mine.

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