A Quiet Belief in Angels - Ellory, R.J.

I am a huge fan of R.J Ellory - I love Ellory's books, his books are really original with lots of meanings behind them -yet they are so easy to read. All I have read of Ellory's had really impressed me - no book being the same. I would compare this book to "To Kill A Mockingbird" - another amazing read which I highly recommend. Without giving too much away - The story follows the journey of Joseph's life which consists of sadness, challenges and moments which really tests his life. He has a shadow over him from something which has happened. The reader is drawn into this life, and you feel nothing but sorrow for him. Joseph seems like am ...  Read the complete review

I open the book and find a dedication to Truman Capote, on the next page a quotation on childhood by an author I don't know, then comes a half-page long prologue on gunshots in New York which no one heard or cared for. So we are in New York? The following one and a half page in italicised print have no headline but don't take up the theme of the prologue, instead a first person narrator looks back at his life and promises to tell us all about it, obviously things have happened that make it worth telling. "I look at the body of a dead man before me, and I know that in some small way justice has been seen to be done." On the following page the first chapter ...  Read the complete review

I picked this book up for 25p from the charity booklist at work. I had never heard of R J Ellory before, and for the purpose of this review I'm going to find out a bit more about him! === RJ Ellory === R J Ellory has an excellent website at - www.rogerjonellory.com To summarise...Born in Birmingham in 1965 Ellory seems to have had a pretty difficult childhood. He began writing in 1987, and trying to get his books published proved to be impossible since he is English but his books are set in the US. Disillusioned, Ellory stopped writing until 2001 when he began again. His first published book "Candlemoth" was ...  Read the complete review

I had never heard of R.J.Ellory before and I only chose to buy this book as part of a Richard and Judy book club deal. But I was pleasantly surprised when I started reading it and found that it was hard to put it down. It is set in a small southern town in America at the start of world war 2 and up to sometime during the vietnam war (late 60's I think). The narrator is a man named Joseph Vaughan who lives with his mum in Augusta Falls, his Dad having died when he was young. The story follows him as he grows up and is slowly involved with the murders of young girls in his town and other counties close by (although he doesn't actually kill them). After his girlfriend Alex ...  Read the complete review