Angels Burning

De: Tawni O'Dell

Narrado por: Susan Bennett

From the New York Times best-selling author of the Oprah Book Club pick Back Roads comes this fast-paced literary thriller about a small-town police chief who's forced to dig into her own shadowy past as she investigates the murder of a teenage girl.

On the surface, Chief Dove Carnahan is a true trailblazer who would do anything to protect the rural Pennsylvanian countryside where she has lived all 50 of her years. Traditional and proud of her blue-collar sensibilities, Dove is loved by her community. But beneath her badge lies a dark and self-destructive streak, fed by a secret she has kept since she was 16.

When a girl is beaten to death, her body tossed down a fiery sinkhole in an abandoned coal town, Dove is faced with solving the worst crime of her law enforcement career. She identifies the girl as a daughter of the Truly family, a notoriously irascible dynasty of rednecks and petty criminals.

During her investigation, the man convicted of killing Dove's mother years earlier is released from prison. Still proclaiming his innocence, he approaches Dove with a startling accusation and a chilling threat that forces her to face the parallels between her own family's trauma and that of the Trulys.

With countless accolades to her credit, author Tawni O'Dell writes with the "fearless insights" (The New York Times Book Review) she brought in Back Roads and One of Us. In this new masterfully told psychological thriller, the past and present collide to reveal the extent some will go to in order to escape their fate and, in turn, the crimes committed to push them back to where they began.

©2016 Tawni O'Dell (P)2016 Recorded Books

another home run by tawni

this author knows family and all the emotions that rule them and motivate them. I loved it. the narrator was fantastic

It was just ok

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This book was ok. The lead character has been sleeping with a married man off and on for years. This makes her very unlikeable to me. Also the guy she is sleeping with misses a few things in the case which she uncovers. He is supposed to be a good detective/cop, so this seems very unlikely to me. The ending isn’t exactly as I thought, which was a nice surprise. It was good enough, and held my attention. The voice actor reading the story did a really good job. I probably won’t read another of her books, but I’m not upset I used the credit.