Angel Wings
Published on 2. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
254 pages
978-1-61109-887-7 (ISBN)
Description
As a veteran member of the Providence police department's elite homicide squad, Detective Danny Martell has seen his fair share of dead bodies. But he's never seen anything quite like this. Women around the city are being brutally murdered, their dead faces elaborately made up and fabric angel wings attached to their lifeless bodies. The attacks are immediately dubbed "the Angel Murders"-yet it doesn't take long for the deadly crime wave to drag Danny into his own personal hell...
Because soon after the killings begin, Danny's wife, Linda, abruptly disappears. And when his worst fears are realized, a grief-stricken Danny redoubles his efforts to hunt down the deranged serial killer. But is Linda just another random "angel"? Or is she the victim of a copycat killer with a vendetta against Danny?
Gritty, suspenseful, and fiendishly fascinating, this chilling whodunit will keep readers guessing right alongside Danny-and on the very edge of their seats until the final page is turned.
Because soon after the killings begin, Danny's wife, Linda, abruptly disappears. And when his worst fears are realized, a grief-stricken Danny redoubles his efforts to hunt down the deranged serial killer. But is Linda just another random "angel"? Or is she the victim of a copycat killer with a vendetta against Danny?
Gritty, suspenseful, and fiendishly fascinating, this chilling whodunit will keep readers guessing right alongside Danny-and on the very edge of their seats until the final page is turned.
Reviews / Votes
"Angel Wings is a top-notch thriller, original, sharp, tough, smart, suspenseful and full of surprises, in which a tough guy cop and the most original and intriguing serial killer since Hannibal Lecter fight it out in a book which reads like a classic vintage noir novel." -Michael Korda, author of Queenie"Howard Kaminsky's Angel Wings is a haunting thriller that proves itself and provides its satisfactions line by line. It involves the pursuit of a psychopathic killer in coastal New England. Brisk and salted with character and setting, wonderfully suspenseful, with memorable dialogue and fine turns of plot, Angel Wings is entertaining from first to last." -Robert Stone, author of Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, and Damascus Gate
"Good cops, bad cops, for me the only genre. The clips come loaded, the players are strapped. Notwithstanding, I am not blowing smoke when I aver that Angel Wings tied, twisted and turned me like a huge bedspread in a laundry dryer. And in the face of my fifty years in the police homicide sphere, the denouement, fuggedaboutit, floated me into a sea of discombobulation. I have yet to recover. I volunteer to write the screenplay on spec." -Edwin Torres, author of Carlito's Way, Q&A, and After Hours
"Howard Kaminsky's Angel Wings has it all-maddeningly elusive serial killer, tough Mafiosi, tougher cops, willing ladies in the prime of life, great Italian food, a story that's like drinking a hundred cups of espresso." -Charles McCarry, author of The Secret Lovers
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Publishing group
Amazon Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61109-887-7 (9781611098877)
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Person
Born and bred in Brooklyn, New York, Howard Kaminsky attended Brooklyn College, San Francisco State University, and the University of California at Berkeley. The author of seven books, he previously was president and publisher of Warner Books, Random House, and William Morrow/Avon, and he served on the Board of Directors of American Publishers Association and the National Book Foundation. His screenplays include 1972's Homebodies. He co-produced the film My Dog Tulip and he is currently producing a documentary, The Two Popes, about the man who created the National Enquirer and his father. Today he splits his time between New York City and Connecticut, where he is at work on his new novel, The Perfection Project.