The murder of a brokenhearted woman… The body of Bernice Hogan, a troubled young former nursing student with a tragic past, is found in a shallow grave near a forest creek. …and the chilling disappearance of her friend… Jolene Peller, a single mom struggling to build a new life with her little boy, vanishes the night she tries to find Bernice. …raise questions about their ties to a respected detective… Hero cop Karl Styebeck is beloved by his community, but privately police are uneasy with the answers he gives to protect the life—and the lie—he's lived. …and lead to one journalist's obsession to find the truth… The case haunts Jack Gannon, a gritty, blue-collar reporter whose own sister ran away from their family years ago. Gannon risks more than his job to pursue the story behind Styebeck's dark secret, his link to the women, and the mysterious big rig roaming America's loneliest highways on its descent into eternal darkness.** Views: 15
This book was a finalist for the 2001 Arthur Ellis Award for BEST FIRST NOVEL presented by the Crime Writers of Canada.
Tom Reed is a crime reporter with The San Francisco Star, whose superb journalistic skills earned him a Pulitzer nomination. But years later Reed’s life is coming apart. His editor wants him fired. His wife has left him to wrestle with his demons. Alone, Reed is tormented by the fear he may have caused the suicide of an innocent man suspected of murdering a two-year-old girl.
Reed’s friend on the case is legendary San Francisco Homicide Inspector, Walt Sydowski, who has one of California’s highest clearance rates. He is also a lonely widower haunted by the fact he cannot solve the girl's heartbreaking death.
Both men grapple with the past while they race the clock to learn the truth behind a several new abductions that have anguished the Bay Area, in this acclaimed thriller set in the late 1990s.
IF ANGELS FALL, is the first book of the five-book Tom Reed - Walt Sydowski series. It is followed by COLD FEAR, BLOOD OF OTHERS, NO WAY BACK and BE MINE.
About the author:
Rick Mofina is a former crime reporter and the award-winning author of several acclaimed thrillers.
The International Thriller Writers, The Private Eye Writers of America and The Crime Writers of Canada have listed Rick Mofina's books as being among the best in the world. His titles have been published in some 20 countries and have been praised by James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, Jeffery Deaver, Sandra Brown, James Rollins, Brad Thor, Nick Stone, David Morrell, Allison Brennan, Heather Graham, Linwood Barclay, Peter Robinson, Håkan Nesser and Kay Hooper.
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"Compelling!" -- Point Reyes Light
"Guaranteed to keep readers flipping the pages." -- Toronto Sun
"If you buy it for the flight, you'll be reading it on the escalator." -- National Post
About the Author
If Angels Fall was nominated for BEST FIRST NOVEL, Arthur Ellis Awards. Views: 10
In Before Sunrise, a short, dark novel, we meet Will Fortin of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, on patrol in southern Alberta. It's a lonely region where the sky meets the land on even terms, where the landscape exaggerates or diminishes your place in the world. If you're lucky, trouble would never find you there. If you weren't, this was your battleground.It is here where Fortin experiences the worst any cop can face, the taking of innocent lives when he accidentally shoots two children while responding to a call at a farm involving a gun. His life destroyed his guilt unbearable, Fortin, a good man, struggles as a haunted soul, aching to redeem himself.Years after the shooting, Fortin is assigned to escort a murderer to trial in Seattle, Washington. When their plane crashes in the unforgiving Rocky Mountains, Fortin is presented with his last chance at redemption.Coming in at about the same length as The Old Man and the Sea, Before Sunrise, is a powerful, heart-wrenching story... Views: 8
A personal message written in human blood is left for crime reporter Molly Wilson at the murder scene of her boyfriend, San Francisco Homicide Inspector, Cliff Hooper.The horrific death of a revered cop shocks the San Francisco Police Department's Homicide Detail. Shaken to the core, his grieving fellow detectives go flat out to find his killer under the glare of the city's news media. Be Mine is a study in psychological suspense that takes the reader on an unrelenting nail-biting journey into the darkest regions of a tormented human heart. "Mofina continues his string of gripping, tense thrillers that explore the intricacies of crime reporting." - Orlando Sentinel."Another riveting read from one of the leading thriller writers of the day." - Penthouse magazine, on Blood of Others.About the author:Rick Mofina is a former crime reporter and the award-winning author of several acclaimed thrillers.The International Thriller Writers, The Private Eye Writers of America and The Crime Writers of Canada have Rick Mofina's books as being among the best in the world. His titles have been published in some 20 countries and have been praised by James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, Jeffery Deaver, Sandra Brown, James Rollins, Brad Thor, Nick Stone, David Morrell, Allison Brennan, Heather Graham, Linwood Barclay, Peter Robinson, Håkan Nesser and Kay Hooper.Review"Rick Mofina is writing a fine series of thrillers to which Be Mine is a great addition." -- Dean Koontz About the AuthorRick Mofina is a former wire service reporter who began his writing career at The Toronto Star. His crime stories have appeared around the world in such publications as The New York Times, Reader's Digest and The South China Morning Post. His books have been optioned for films and translated into Norwegian. His series has been critically acclaimed. His thriller Blood of Others, received the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. Views: 6
