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The Faces of Angels
Lucretia Grindle
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Paperback, 436 pages; 2011 (2006)
$14.95
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The city of Florence should be the last place Mary Warren wants to live: It's the scene of a hideous attack in which her husband was murdered and she nearly so. But her artist's eye needs Florence and its impossibly seductive beauty the way a fish needs water, and so she's back, turning her face resolutely toward the future and away from that horrific past. But young women keep getting murdered, attacked in the same way that Mary was. The police told Mary that her tormentor committed suicide in prison. Did they lie? Was there another killer? Or is the pattern that Mary sees itself a lie, a fantasy woven of her own unacknowledged dread? The Faces of Angelsis dark and rich and complex in flavor. It's commonplace to liken tales of psychological suspense to the work of Ruth Rendell, but, in truth, this owes more to Daphne du Maurier. It's gorgeous.
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