Angel

by Nicholas Guild

Book Overview

When a ghastly murder shatters his comfortable existence, a young New England lawyer delves into his own past in order to catch an elusive killer--a beautiful, wealthy, and insane woman. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786702427
• ISBN13: 9780786702428
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Secrets of the dead

Guild's intriguing tale of family secrets and serial murder features Jim Kincaid, a brilliant young lawyer confined to his father's Connecticut small town practice by his father's ill health.When Kincaid senior dies, apparently after seeing a news clipping sent by a clipping service, his son begins to discover that much has been kept from him concerning an old love (the last member of the town's richest family) and a list of names - men who turn up dead one by one.The narrative moves mostly between Kincaid and Angel - his beautiful but deranged lost love - as the past intrudes dangerously on the present. While the story is in places fantastic, Guild's narrative skill keeps it moving with deft characterizations of Kincaid and his new romance, an atmospheric revisitation of the past and the tension of a stalking serial killer.

Very nasty woman - very clever writer !

We follow a young lawyer as he becomes more and more drawn into a deadly search for truth. His recently-deceased father's honor and his own very young flirtation bring him into a 'campaign of terror' devised by a truly evil serial killer.