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A Quiet Belief in Angels

By: R J Ellory
Narrated by: Garrick Hagon
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Publisher's Summary

Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year, 2006.
A Richard & Judy Book Club Selection.

Joseph Vaughan's life has been dogged by tragedy. Growing up in the 1940s, he was at the centre of series of killings of young girls in his small rural community. The girls were taken, assaulted, and left horribly mutilated. Barely a teenager himself, Joseph becomes determined to try to protect his community and classmates from the predations of the killer.

But despite banding together with his friends as "Guardians", he was powerless to prevent more murders - and no one was ever caught. Only after a full ten years did the nightmare end when one of his neighbours is found hanging from a rope - with articles from the dead girls around him. Thankfully though, the killings finally ceased.

Ill-fortune was not yet done with Joseph, though, and in desperation, he leaves the town of his birth to forge a new life in New York. But the past won't leave him alone - for it seems that the real murderer still lives and is killing again. And the secret of his identity lies in Joseph's own history....

Winner of the Nouvel Observateur Crime Fiction Prize
©2007 R. J. Ellory Publications Ltd (P)2008 Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Crime Thrillers Suspense
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Critic Reviews

A beautiful and haunting book. This is a tour de force from R.J. Ellory (Michael Connelly)
A rich, powerful, evocative novel of great psychological depth (Jonathan Kellerman)
R.J. Ellory is a uniquely gifted, passionate, and powerful writer, and the quality of his prose - every word, every sentence - lifts A Quiet Belief in Angels far above genre (Alan Furst)
A mesmerizing tale whose intrigue will pull you from one page to the next without pause, casting you into the gloom of dread and the shadow of grief until you reach the climactic end. R.J. Ellory's remarkable talent for probing the unknown establishes him as the master of the genre. The perfect author to read late into the night (Clive Cussler)
compelling reading (Christina Hardyment)

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