Archive for October 10, 2009
A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS by R. J. Ellory
R. J. Ellory’s A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS is the heartrending story of Joseph Vaughn, a boy who grows up under an unlucky star. The narrator is only eleven when his thirty-seven year old father, Earl, dies in 1939, leaving him and his impoverished young mother to fend for themselves. Earl’s death leaves Joseph and his mother deeply shaken. The boy is further traumatized when a classmate is found dead, after having been stripped, beaten, and assaulted by an unknown perpetrator. This girl’s murder is just the first in a long string of calamities that will dog Augusta Falls, Georgia, where Joseph and his mother live. The specter of death constantly haunts this tragic tale of hopes dashed and innocent lives snuffed out prematurely.
October 10, 2009
Tags: 1940s, Georgia, Gothic, murder mystery Posted in: Betrayal, Coming-of-Age, Gothic, Mystery/Suspense, Small Town, US South 
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