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Anonymous
Posted July 1, 2008
Interesting
Mike Travis, a retired Los Angeles police detective, now lives in Hawaii running a scuba charter business. Approached by friends of a missing teenage girl, he agrees to try to find the girl, but in his way are some road blocks, deception, and in the middle of this, his wife, his own darkness, and the sudden appearance of a spoiled nephew create some interesting side-plots. All in all, the book was slow in catching my interest, but towards the middle of the book I felt the real story was beginning. I had to stay up late to finish it to the very end. The unnecessary expletives distracted me from the story. I felt the author was very good in his descriptions and dialogue and the rough edges of Mike Travis were adequately described without the use of cuss words. The trial described at the beginning of the book was unnecessary and distracting as well as the car exploding came and went without really getting back to it. Several times I had to go back and re-read a few paragraphs. Overall, this author is a great writer with the ability to bring out the character by showing rather than telling. I would like to see other titles of this author. Nikole Hahn
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Anonymous
Posted May 20, 2008
A casual and relaxed writing style
It was a pleasure having ¿Angels Fall¿ take place in Hawaii and not the usual New York, Miami, LA scene. Mike Travis, former LA cop, owns and helps run a coffee plantation. Usually Travis avoids any type of police-related work but at the insistence of a good friend he is persuaded to look into the disappearance of a teenage girl. Delving in to this mystery causes Travis to reflect back to his teenage years which cause mental wounds from his past to be reopened. A resident of Hawaii, Baron A. Birtcher gives first-hand, detailed descriptions of the many different landscapes of this state. Birtchers has a casual and relaxed writing style that makes his book very readable. Using well placed flashbacks, Mike Travis¿ haunted past is slowly revealed and explains why his current case has such a strong effect on him. Mike Travis is a down ¿to-earth and plausible character and I hope this is not the last we see of him.
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