"excellent romantic suspense"
Two years ago in a family owned Florida restaurant where
Reece Gilmore worked as a chef, a group of killers went on
a murdering frenzy leaving only one survivor whom the
predators thought was dead too. Reece is heartbroken as
she thought of the owners as family; she also received two
bullets and she saw her best friend killed. Reece enters
a psychiatric hospital for trauma treatment before leaving
her past behind to seek some solace from her anxieties and
fears. Reece stops running when she reaches Angel Falls nestled
in the Grand Teton Mountains of Wyoming where she begins
to truly heal by accepting work as a cook at a diner her
first cooking job since the lethal incident. When she
goes hiking Reece sees through her binoculars a man kill a
woman; she runs to find help and meets Brady a writer. By
the time they get the sheriff to the crime scene, all
traces of a homicide are gone. The sheriff does not
believe Reece while someone tries to gaslight her into
believing she is having a break down, which everyone
except Brady assumes is true. At first readers will lean towards the predominant opinion
of the townsfolk that Reece is psychologically regressing
and the incidents are not real except inside her mind.
However, her spirit and refusal to back down assisted by
Brady's belief soon begins to persuade the audience that
maybe her paranoia is based on a genuine attempt to drive
her insane. The readers' turnaround is why Nora Roberts
is one of the best at writing romantic suspense as
demonstrated once again with the exciting ANGEL FALLS.
Nora Roberts is at her very best in this great thriller. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted July 4, 2006
SummaryReece Gilmore has come a long way to see the stunning view
below her. As the sole survivor of a brutal crime back East,
she has been on the run, desperately fighting the nightmares
and panic attacks that haunt her. Reece settles in Angel's
Fist, Wyoming—temporarily, at least—and takes a
job at a local diner. And now she's hiked this mountain all
by herself. It was glorious, she thought, as she peered
through her binoculars at the Snake River churning below.
Then Reece saw the man and woman on the opposite bank.
Arguing. Fighting. And suddenly, the man was on top of the
woman, his hands around her throat . . .
Enjoying a moment of solitude a bit farther down the trail
is a gruff loner named Brody. But by the time Reece reaches
him and brings him to the scene, the pair has vanished. When
authorities comb the area where she saw the attack, they
find nothing. No signs of struggle. No freshly turned earth.
Not even a tire track.
And no one in Angel's Fist seems to believe her. After all,
she's a newcomer in town, with a reputation for being jumpy
and jittery—maybe even a little fragile. Maybe it's
time to run again, to move on . . .
Reece Gilmore knows there's a killer in Angel's Fist, even
if Brody, despite his seeming impatience and desire to keep
her at arm's length, is the only one willing to believe her.
When a series of menacing events makes it clear that someone
wants her out of the way, Reece must put her trust in
Brody—and herself—to find out if there is a killer
in Angel's Fist before it's too late.
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