Product Description

A superb, atmospheric thriller from 'one of crime fiction's new stars' [Sunday Telegraph]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-02
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

My Weekly
"A meaty, involving drama which will catch you up in an emotional rollercoaster -- great reading"

Amanda Ross
"Very spine chilling... keeps you going right until the last page"

Synopsis
Joseph Vaughan's life has been dogged by tragedy. Growing up in the 1950s, 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. Despite banding together with his friends as ' The 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 the one of his neighbours is found hanging from a rope, with articles from the dead girls around him. Thankfully, the killings finally ceased. But the past won't stay buried - 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...

Customer Reviews

Read 1 book this year ! - make it this one !
A Quiet Belief in Angels does not need superlatives to recommend it. If you want a rollercoaster to liven your commute, increase your heart rate, absorb you wholeheartedly into its pages.

Read it! Before it gets a brash Hollywood shine.

Read this, if you want a book where you will feel for the characters.
I won't spoil the story by putting my précis with this review. Check the back cover and that will lure you in to this 5 star read.

I'm off to check out what else RJ Ellory has instore.

Enjoy!

A quiet belief
I have never written a book review before but feel must write to recommend this book,especially as I probably would not have read it myself if it had not been our book club choice. What can I say? Just READ IT and find out for yourself. A Quiet Belief is the first book I had read by R J Ellory, but had to read some more. So, this week have read Candlemoth - his first published novel and another brilliant read.

Very involving read
I found the book to very involving and it sucked me right in. From its initial innocence of of the main character to how he developed later in life. The pace of the book was just right, starts slow and picks up pace in the second half.

One gripe I did have (and this is with most crime books), is that the authors never touch on why the bad guys do those things, as in this book, there was no real motive given for the bad guy, had a great opportunity but it seemed as though Ellory wanted to avoid the dark nature of the villain. We knew who he was and the protagonist touched on the reasons why those bad things MAY have been done, but thats all.

All in all a great read and highly recommended.

P.S. Steer clear of The Stand (Stephen king) as suggested by Ellory for other books to read.