If Angels Fall By Rick Mofina

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This is my book review of If Angels Fall by Rick Mofina.

I finished reading an eBook on my Kindle last night by an author I’ve just recently discovered. He is Rick Mofina. If you like to read psychological suspense novels, then you will love this book. It is very fast paced and fascinating.

Book Summary:

Inspector Walt Sydowski has worked San Francisco homicide for decades, but he’s never faced a predator like this. The victims disappear with chilling precision, taken in broad daylight, and vanishing without a trace. The killer leaves no evidence, no demands, no mistakes. Only a pattern that defies explanation.

Edward Keller lost everything twenty years ago, and grief has twisted his faith into something monstrous. He believes God has revealed a divine mission, one that requires the ultimate sacrifice to achieve resurrection. As bodies start appearing, Sydowski realizes he’s not hunting an ordinary killer. He’s racing against a man convinced he’s doing the Lord’s work.

Tom Reed is a crime reporter with The San Francisco Star. His superb journalistic skills earned him a Pulitizer nomination. Years later, however, Reed’s life is coming apart.

Reed sees the connections first, but his own demons and a career-ending scandal make him question everything. With religious delusion driving each calculated move, three investigations converge on one terrifying truth. The most dangerous predators are the ones who believe they’re saving the world.

He grapples with the past while he races the lock to learn the truth behind several abductions that have gripped the Bay Area.

About the Author:

Rick Mofina’s first book was written in 2000. There are four other books in this series that I’m interested in reading.

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.

Rick Mofina is a former journalist and an award-winning author of many acclaimed thrillers. His reporting has put him face to face with murderers on death row in Montana and Texas.

He has covered a horrific serial-killing case in California and an armored car-heist in Las Vegas. He’s flown over Los Angeles with the LAPD and gone on patrol with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police near the arctic.

Mofina has reported from the Caribbean, Africa, and Kuwait’s border with Iraq.

His true-crime articles have appeared in the New York Times, Marie Claire, Reader’s Digest, and Penthouse.